Menstrual Hygiene Day 2021
This year’s Menstrual Hygiene Day focuses on taking action to improve access to information about menstruation and to end period poverty. Our Chair person and her friends are taking part in a London Vitality 10K Race to raise money for our Menstrual Hygiene programme . The programme focusses on providing school girls about periods as …
Beyond Covid-access to skills
The Covid-19 virus has meant the closure of schools for more than a year and for some girls in Uganda, the outcomes have been devastating. The incidence of teenage pregnancies is off scale and so are sexual assaults. you can read about the situation in Ruhanga at this link Who is celebrating International Women’s Day? …
Access to education in the age of COVID
LTHT has been providing Skills Workshops for girls Not In Education, Employment or Training since 2018. Going forward, the availability of such workshops will matter more because of COVID. As parents lose their sources of income, their ability to pay school fees will be impacted. Sadly this means too, that any available resources will go …
Menstrual Hygiene in the Community
A menstrual hygiene report carried out in Uganda showed that girls in rural areas miss 3 to 5 days of school each month during their menstrual periods, staying home using strips of toilet paper or old rags. This leads to poor school performance and eventually school dropouts A menstrual hygiene report carried out in Uganda …
Menstrual Hygiene in rural Uganda
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have come to an end and world leaders are currently in New York where they are discussing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that will replace them in January 2016. There is a specific goal about women, Goal number 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls Rural women and girls in Uganda still …
Menstrual Hygiene Management in Ntungamo secondary schools
On 28 May 2016, we launched a Menstrual Hygiene Management program (MHM) in Ntungamo SW Uganda with a view to ensuring that women and girls manage their monthly period in a hygienic way. This involves ensuring that girls and women have access to information about menstruation as well as access to clean and safe menstrual absorbents. As …
Educating Girls about Menstruation and Menstrual Hygiene
The organisers of Menstrual Hygiene Day say that although there has been a lot of good work on Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) either currently underway or already completed, we are a long way off from achieving an even playing field for girls and women worldwide. Menstruation stigma persists in some parts of the world …
Who are the Ultra Poor?
The Ultra Poor are defined as those people who live on less than 50 cents a day. On 9 December 2015, the media here in the United Kingdom was preoccupied by the Ultra Poor. This is because of a report launched that day by the charity BRAC at a lecture hosted London School of Economics (LSE) . The lecture …
Send a chicken to an African Woman
We need your assistance to help women in rural Uganda increase their income from 40p to £1.75 a week. That’s just 25 p a day and half the price of a daily newspaper here in the UK but £1.75 is the amount of money a woman in Uganda needs to send three children to a …
Pig farming- a new project for ultra poor women
A few weeks ago we added pig farming to our range of livelihood programmes for ultra poor women in Ntungamo district. Through this program, we provide women with an asset as well as training. these are women without capital to start enterprises and the asset we provide enables the women to generate income as well as build …