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Keeping girls in school with the help of homemade reusable sanitary pads
How communities in central Uganda are learning to make reusable sanitary pads in order to make 'that time of the month' more comfortable for girls in school. The 麻豆社's Patience Atuhaire has been hearing about a local initiative which is teaching not only schoolgirls, but their brothers, mothers and fathers, how to make the pads.
(Photo: An example of a locally made reusable sanitary pad in central Uganda. Credit: 麻豆社)
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