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Femme International is committed to using education, conversation & distribution to break down the global menstrual taboo. Menstruation affects 51% of the world's population, with every woman experiencing menses during her lifetime. For menstruators in low-income communities, getting your period presents a set of specific challenges - poor access to menstrual products, oppressive taboos, lack of adequate hygiene facilities, and lack of reproductive health education. 83% of girls in Burkina Faso, and 77% in Nigeria (UNICEF) have no place to clean themselves at school, and will therefore leave early. The World Bank has estimated that girls will miss 10-20% of her education because of her body's natural cycle. Femme believes that providing adolescent girls not only with reusable menstrual products, but also comprehensive education, empowers them to feel in control of their bodies, and breaks down the menstrual taboo. When women lack access to sanitary pads, either by financial constraints or lack of availability, they will use alternative methods. In India, 88% of menstruating women use homemade methods. In Tanzania, the most common method is to use rags, or cloth, folded into the underwear - something women have been doing for centuries. However, when the cloth is not washed properly, used when damp, or shared among sisters, it becomes unsafe. Other homemade methods common in Tanzania include foam mattress stuffing, newspaper, leaves, even mud. These methods are not safe or hygienic, and they are uncomfortable, preventing girls from being able to concentrate or participate in school. They also don't help girls feel comfortable during a week when they are already feeling ashamed of their bodies. Unsafe menstrual management is a leading cause of reproductive tract infections (UTIs, yeast infections, bacterial vaginosis), which when untreated can cause more serious health concerns. The decision to use and promote reusable products is because sanitary pads are unaffordable for many women. The average cost of a package of 8 pads in Tanzania is approximately $1/day, which is often the same as the daily wage for an unskilled labourer. For a 14-year old girl, she will rarely feel comfortable asking the male breadwinner for this money, and they will rarely be able to provide her with it. A study in Kenya indicated that one in ten girls aged 15 had engaged in transactional sex to purchase pads. In rural Tanzania, or even urban centers, there is no method of garbage disposal beyond burning. Many women report burying their products, but must do so far away from their homes because of the perceived destructive powers of menstrual blood. The environmental impact of disposable menstrual products is staggering, and unsustainable, both financially and environmentally. The Twaweza Project is simple - and it works. Preliminary M&E reports demonstrate significant impact, including improved academic results and attendance, improved self-confidence, reduction of financial stress, and improved health. Adolescent beneficiaries are two times less likely to report symptoms of bacterial vaginosis.

Leveraging technology to end social injustices

GRID-Arendal is a non-profit environmental organisation that transforms science into compelling stories for a healthier, more equitable planet. With a strong mandate from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Norwegian government, we serve as a trusted partner in bridging science and decision-making. Over 35 years of experience, we have built an extensive network, ensuring that our work contributes to meaningful environmental progress. Our Vision A healthy and equitable planet where people respect each other and live in harmony with nature. Our Mission Transforming science into compelling stories, providing knowledge and building capacity to reduce the risks posed by the triple planetary crisis, and increase the resilience of people and ecosystems. Our Approach The urgency of today's challenges demands that we go beyond conventional approaches. To generate equitable and enduring change at the rate, scale, and speed necessary to ensure flourishing biodiversity and thriving people, we are adopting a transformative approach as the basis of all our work.

EYW exists to empower young women growing up in vulnerable communities across under-resourced countries, with education at the centre of everything we do. Our mission is to inspire confidence, expand opportunity, and equip future generations of girls to become leaders in their families, schools, and societies. Quality education creates pathways out of poverty and lays the foundation for long-term change. Our work advances three UN Sustainable Development Goals: SDG 4 - Quality Education, SDG 5 - Gender Equality, and SDG 1 - No Poverty. Through these goals, we help partners integrate meaningful social impact, ESG, and CSR commitments into their core values. We go beyond delivering programmes: we measure our impact, track progress, and focus on the real lives and futures of the girls we serve. Each intervention is both immediate support and an investment in sustainable change for generations to come. We embrace diversity, collaboration, and community. Our progress is made possible by dedicated partners, allies, donors, and volunteers who share our vision. When you choose to collaborate with us, you become part of a collective effort to break cycles of inequality and expand access to opportunity through education-helping us build a more just, equitable, and sustainable world.

To deliver Indigenous-led Nature-based Solutions that halt biodiversity loss, restore degraded ecosystems, and strengthen community resilience by empowering local stewardship and aligning livelihoods with long-term ecological health.

To share who we are and not just what we have

Through media and technology, Girl Effect helps girls to understand, value and make life-changing choices for themselves. Choices that help girls to take control of their health, their education and their ability to earn.

To empower the library and information community to actively promote the African development agenda through dynamic services that transform livelihoods.

Sheepcare's core mission is to touch the lives of the poor people particularly children, transforming them holistically to duplicate the same by transforming their communities and realize their potential to make their lives and world better.

Promote the rights and well being of our children and youth through capacity building, advocacy and education.

To achieve an optimum mark in our mission thereby becoming a beacon of successful endeavours in putting the marginalized groups of women, children and orphans in equal positions of social and economic advantages with the rest of the society.

Against the background of rapid environmental change, the mission of the Foundation shall be to mitigate social and humanitarian problems worldwide and make societies more resilient in facing them. The Foundation shall support efforts to redress social, economic and ecological imbalances, caused inter alia by macro-developments such as natural disaster, climate change, population growth or pandemic. With a view to contributing to sustainable social development, the Foundation may support projects, institutions or organizations engaged in the fields of education and training, research and innovation, development aid and the promotion of social responsibility and social and political discussion. The Foundation may act on a supra-regional or local scale to prevent risks, adapt to changed risk situations and tackle the consequences of disasters. It shall support voluntary work and other activities of social and societal relevance. The Foundation shall have no political or religious allegiance, pursue no commercial purpose and seek no profit.