TheLadyLydiaFoundation

Exciting News! Our website is back and better than ever! We’re thrilled to share our fresh new look and improved functionality with you. Head over to theladylydiafoundation.org to explore!

We are thrilled to welcome Anuna Nsekanabo as our Editorial Officer! Anuna brings both expertise and passion to our mission. Her impactful articles will soon be featured in the blog section of our upcoming website launch. We’re so excited to have her on board with us!

Our first day of our very first outreach, we merged Kawungu Primary School and BTA Binikira primary school. We were met with open arms and minds from the students and faculty and were so delighted to find how receptive the community was of this initiative. ✨

We look forward to your continued support throughout this project and helping to end period poverty in Lyantonde District. Thank you and stay tuned 😊

The Yekunde project, which translates to Love yourself in Runyankole, will strive to ensure fair distribution of re-usable sanitary pads to young girls in primary schools, educate them on menstrual health management and teach them to love themselves always.

After a much-need reset, some more guidance and time to go back to the drawing board, the Lady Lydia Foundation can confidently say it has its first period poverty campaign on the way.

#endperiodpoverty #endthestigma #periodpoverty #endperiodshaming

57% of girls in Uganda complete primary. While the reason for this statistic are varied, period poverty contributes a great amount as girls continue to miss multiple days of school due to lack of sanitary pads. #periodpoverty #educacion #endperiodpoverty #endperiodshaming

We received our first donations this weekend and we couldn’t be more grateful! Let’s continue to donate towards ending period poverty and keeping young girls in school ❤️. #periodpoverty #endperiodshaming #endperiodpoverty #educacion

Stigma attached to menstruation also denies the opportunity to have open and goes to discourse about menstruation which leads to young girls feeling ashamed of their bodies. We need to have these conversations to teach girls that menstruation is not dirty and love their bodies.

This will not only be beneficial for young women but for the economic development of Uganda as a whole.

They are denied their right to education further lowering them down the ranks of society. With the Lady Lydia Foundation aims to eliminate period poverty so that young girls are able to go to school and further bridge the gender equality gap that exists.

Period poverty is going to be a major inhibitor to Uganda achieving the SDGs. It cuts across, health, education and gender equality. Girls cannot attend school due to lack of sanitary products and are therefore experience higher health risks due to lack of proper sanitation.

Did you know…? When girls in Uganda are on their period, the absenteeism rate shoots to 28% compared to 7% on non-period days. #periodpoverty menstrualhygieneday.org/uganda-must-ta…

Really educative thread #PeriodPoverty

Join us and show your support to keep young girls and women in school and eliminating #periodpoverty

Did you know that 1 in every4 Ugandan girls between the ages 12 and 18 drop out of school once they begin menstruating? borgenproject.org/period-poverty…

What is #periodpoverty ?