GIRLS/WOMEN EMPOWERMENT

This is mostly done through provision of sanitary towels and undergarment, under the program named Pads and Pants (PAPA). PAPA project is to help girls in rural villages have access to sanitary pads and panties to avoid them miss classes or drop out of school due to the lack of this basic necessities. Many organisations who also does similar project of donating sanitary pads only give to the school girls. Therefore QDF thought that just focusing on girls alone can’t solve the problem because the girls go home to share those pads with their mothers and sisters who have not gone to school and have no access to the pads. Hence the problems of girls missing classes or even dropping out of schools continues. So we are trying to help both girls and women in remote villages through donations of reusable pads and panties. Our aim is to avoid any girl drop out of school due to lack of sanitary pad . On the other hand also to put smiles on the faces of the innocent women in remote villages who have been using pieces of clothes, mattresses, pieces of blankets etc when on their menses. Having a period has been a great shame to pastoralists women who can’t leave the house to avoid soiling themselves in public. So QDF is bringing dignity to girls and pastoralists women through PAPA PROJECT. No matter the tribe, the location and age every woman deserve a dignified period.