In Tanzania, 80% of girls don’t have the ability to manage their periods hygienically due to a lack of access to purchase sanitary products as well as lack of ability to pay for them. In mountainous and rural areas, pads are almost impossible to find in stores, even if girls could afford them.
This project has been established to train 250 rural women from disadvantaged backgrounds to become sanitary pad sales agents. Each woman will be trained in basic business and financial skills and learn how to sell quality, reusable sanitary products to girls and women living in regions where they’re not currently easily accessible. The newly trained sales agents will also receive 6 packets of sanitary pads to get them started with their new business.
Those interested in funding this initiative have the opportunity to meet directly with Dr Lucy Odiwa, the local Tanzanian Just Peoples project leader who has designed and will deliver this project, via video call. They'll be able to learn more about the local context in rural Tanzania and determine whether supporting this project will help them meet their goals of contribution.
Following the delivery of this training, the project funder will have the opportunity again to meet directly with Lucy to hear her reflections about the impact that the initiative has had for the sales agents as well as the women and girls in their wider communities.
We believe in a world without poverty. Where people have the power to solve their own problems, their own way.
We don’t believe that foreign intervention is the key to solving poverty. We believe that real, sustainable change comes about when people are given the resources to lift their own communities out of poverty. We tackle global poverty by supporting grassroots leaders to design and deliver locally appropriate solutions to the challenges their communities face.
Just Peoples currently has 16 Project Leaders from across Africa, Asia and Mexico who are bringing to life a wide-range of projects based on delivering health, education, technological and economic outcomes for people living in poverty. The majority of our projects are designed and delivered by women and/or for women as we believe that supporting women around the world to step into their power is one of the most effective ways to change the trajectory for entire communities.
Our Project Leaders are effective because they have a deep understanding of the local context of poverty in peoples’ lives, and have established respected relationships in their communities. Their insight and expertise make them the best people to understand problems, and implement lasting changes that work. So far we have delivered 125 grassroots projects globally, impacting the lives of over 100,000 people living in 13 countries around the world.
Because of existing inequities, if we fund men and women equally, women will still be unequal.
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