Why Days for Girls Matters
What if not having sanitary supplies meant DAYS without school? Days of isolation? Girls
use leaves, mattress stuffing, newspaper, corn husks, rocks, anything they can find...but
still miss up to 2 months of education and opportunity every year. It turns out this issue is a surprising but instrumental key to social change for women all over the world. Learn more >
The poverty cycle
can be broken
when girls stay in school
Education For Girls
After distribution of Days for Girls kits, school absence rates dropped
36% to 8%
25% to 3%
IN KENYA
IN UGANDA
IN QUEENS. NY, USA
2.9%
INCREASE in school attendance
with pads provided.
Expanding the Reach
Days for Girls is expanding its enterprise model in 8 countries.
The model is based off of Days for Girls’ Uganda Program, which won the 2015 African SEED Award for Sustainability and Gender Equity.
Economic Growth
What We Do
Global Network
We help girls gain access to quality sustainable feminine hygiene, vital health knowledge, and income-generation opportunities.
All of this is possible thanks to a global alliance of 760+ chapters and teams, companies, governments, NGOs, and passionate people just like you.
So far we've reached 400,000+ girls in 100+ nations. You can help us reach the rest.
Why Pads
Menstruation around the world:
Dignity
Around the world, girls and women without pads use rags, mattress stuffing, banana leaves, feathers, and cow dung to manage their menstruation. Noreen from Kenya wrote, "When we have those kits, we can do something great in this world."
Education
In India, 1 in 4 girls drop out of school when they start menstruating.
Economic Growth
56% of women in Sindh, Pakistan, said that menstruation impacted their work.
The common denominator in all of this is...
Time
Women menstruate 60 days, or 2 months a year. Days for Girls kits last 2-4 years, which can earn back up to 240 days of opportunity.
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Two-Time Girl Effect Champion
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African Seed Award 2015 - Gender Equity and Enterpreneurship
Awards
Featured at the 2015 and 2016 UN Commission on the Status of Women
Named by the Huffington Post as a ‘Next Ten’ organization poised to changed the world in the next decade.
