PERIOD PROJECT
Empowering women and building a sustainable society!
Save More Kids (SMK) launched The Period Project to provide monthly health seminars, menstrual pads, and care packages to girls & young women living at CCH and the surrounding communities in Liberia. In addition to providing hygienic products for young women, the Period Project serves as a critical peer support group where women bond to address sensitive and essential needs; thereby encouraging a supportive and therapeutic atmosphere for women empowerment.
Our long-term goal of this project is to implement vocational training and financial empowerment programs designed to create opportunities for young women to become self-sufficient and contribute to the local economy.
Save More Kids (SMK) launched The Period Project to provide monthly health seminars, menstrual pads, and care packages to girls & young women living at CCH and the surrounding communities in Liberia. In addition to providing hygienic products for young women, the Period Project serves as a critical peer support group where women bond to address sensitive and essential needs; thereby encouraging a supportive and therapeutic atmosphere for women empowerment.
Our long-term goal of this project is to implement vocational training and financial empowerment programs designed to create opportunities for young women to become self-sufficient and contribute to the local economy.
66% GIRLS
DROP OUT OF SCHOOL DUE TO POVERTY |
63% GIRLS
Between AGES 15-24 ARE ILLITERATE |
20% GIRLS
WILL MISS SCHOOL DUE TO MENSTRUATION |
”Every month, I use a wash cloth during my period because I cannot afford pads. I dread this time of the month because of the humiliation I have to face. I often feel sores and bruises from the roughness of the cloth. Sometimes I've gotten infections from using the damp cloth especially during the raining season when it takes longer for the cloth to dry.
- Period Project Participant, 2018
- Period Project Participant, 2018
66% GIRLS
DROP OUT OF SCHOOL DUE TO POVERTY |
63% GIRLS
Between AGES 15-24 ARE ILLITERATE |
20% GIRLS
WILL MISS SCHOOL DUE TO MENSTRUATION |
”Every month, I use a wash cloth during my period because I cannot afford pads. I dread this time of the month because of the humiliation I have to face. I often feel sores and bruises from the roughness of the cloth. Sometimes I've gotten infections from using the damp cloth especially during the raining season when it takes longer for the cloth to dry.
- Period Project Participant, 2018
WE BUILD AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE GIRLS CAN FEEL SAFE AND CONFIDENT!
WHEN WOMEN BOND,
THERE’S NO PROBLEM TOO GREAT TO SOLVE!
THERE’S NO PROBLEM TOO GREAT TO SOLVE!
EMPOWER THROUGH VOCATIONAL TRAINING PROGRAMS
Our long-term goal through the Period Project is for women to have the opportunity to partake and successfully complete vocational training, seminars, financial management and ethics classes in order to qualify for micro financing to start their own business.
EMPOWERING THE WHOLE WOMAN!
Financial empowerment for women is crucial to eliminating poverty. Empowering women to provide for their
household by creating opportunities for them to become self-sufficient and contribute to the local economy.
household by creating opportunities for them to become self-sufficient and contribute to the local economy.
IMPACTING HUNDREDS OF WOMEN!
THE GIRL AFFECT
EMPOWER A GIRL, EMPOWER A GENERATION!
How YOU
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How YOU Can Get Involved!
Our sustainer partners are critical to maintaining our monthly seminars! These classes are key to the success of local young women and girls!
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Our Empowerment partners invest in a woman or group of women to start a small business of their own in-order to financially empower her to sustain her family.
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A care package includes:
Underwear (Girls & Boys)
Toothbrushes
Flip-flops
Menstrual Pads (Girls)
Deodorant (Boys & Girls)
Underwear (Girls & Boys)
Toothbrushes
Flip-flops
Menstrual Pads (Girls)
Deodorant (Boys & Girls)