A Menstrual Hygiene Pilot project is underway in Rhino Camp refugee settlement of Uganda targeting South Sudanese women and girls.
Community Development Centre in partnership with The Unmentionables Organization provided menstrual health management education and reusable sanitary materials for women and girls, Easter Radio reports.
Last Friday, some 475 women and girls in OFUA One, Two and three benefited from the pilot project.
Centre Executive Director, Sebit Martin, says the project is responding to a health survey conducted by the organization last year.
He says the survey shows that many women and girls in the settlement camp face challenges during menstruation period leading to school dropout.
Fiona Rushbrook, Co-Head of Mission for The Unmentionables in East Africa, pledges that the project will continue in the settlement to offer support to women and girls.
She advises that menstruation is a normal and natural thing that every woman and girl goes through.
Rushbrook expresses their commitment to monitor the project for them to know whether women and girls use the education and sanitary materials as instructed.