SPPIN Project
Stop Period Poverty In Nigeria is a campaign to eradicate period poverty in Nigeria. Women have a right to health information regarding menstrual health, and most especially right to access clean and affordable sanitary products. The average cost of period products (pads, tampons, period cups) in Nigeria is between 500 and 5,000 naira. This is considered luxury because millions of women in Nigeria are living below the poverty line. School girls are skipping classes because they cannot afford proper period products, making it difficult to catch up with school work. Some women have to resort to the use of toilet papers, towels, old clothes so that they can wash and reuse them. Also, period poverty has led some girls to get involve in sexual violence or trade sex with men in order to afford menstrual products; this is harmful because of the exposure to sexually transmitted diseases. Period poverty is detrimental to the health of women.
Stop Period Poverty In Nigeria. Is a project that aims to put a complete stop to period poverty in Nigeria.
How do we plan to do this?
1. Create awareness on period poverty in Nigeria through educational short videos and articles.
2. Encourage the use of menstrual cups by Nigerian women by educating girls and women on everything they need to know about menstrual cups.
3. Give out free menstrual cups to millions of Nigerian women in low-income families who can’t afford period products.
4. Advocating for free menstrual products which includes pads, tampons & menstrual cups from the government.
5. Advocating for access to free period products in schools.
N1,500,000 raised of N10,000,000
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