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Keeping Girls in School: How 908 Girls Changed the Equation

Women Empowerment · 24 Oct 2025

Keeping Girls in School: How 908 Girls Changed the Equation

In Uganda, menstruation is one of the quietest reasons girls leave school.

A small intervention with outsized impact

WENET has trained 908 adolescent girls in making and using reusable sanitary pads and in hygiene.

Part of a bigger picture

Of our 172 scholarship students, 156 (80%) are girls. This sits within our Women & Gender program, which fights child marriage — a reality for over a third of Ugandan girls.

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