Wellspring Women's Network and our sanitary pad project came as a result of growing up in Zimbabwe, seeing a problem and searching for solutions. Every girl or women should celebrate her period, which is very easy to say when a healthy period is only a trip away to CVs, Walgreens. ln Zimbabwe and some parts of the African continent it can be a day or two worth of wages to raise money to buy a pack of sanitary pads.
Periods, l tell can be a major hurdle to many girls across Africa. Many girls go through horrible things during their cycle, the percentage number of girls who stay home during their cycle is shocking, because they cannot simply afford to buy sanitary wear. Reportedly there are girls who use softened tree bark, tree leaves, newspapers, rags, mud and yes mud. This poses great health risks due to the different dyes and chemicals used on newsprint and urinary tract infections.
This is a national catastrophe in Zimbabwe and across Africa.
This to me is a question of social justice.
The rate of poverty in Zimbabwe is unimaginable, unemployment is in the region of 90%. To allow girls and their future to drown deeper into the poverty lane because they lack funds necessary to stem the flow of their monthly periods and sit out of school for 3-4 days is mind boggling.
This project arrived as an attempt to do something and change a girls's life. This matter is solvable if the right people and right minds come together to solve it. Our aim here at Wellspring Women's Network is to find low cost sanitary pads, majority of these come from donations. We seriously need to retain the large number of girls back to the classrooms by providing them with sanitary wear.
The implementation of this project sounds like a great challenge, however with the right partners in place we can safely say "the sky is the limit".
With girls depending on us, we cannot simply afford to fail them.
Thank you for your interest and partnership.
Wellspring Women's Network.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Learn more about Zimbabwe
"Zimbabwe was once the bread basket of the African continent"
some of the contributing factors of the country's meltdown are:
Life expectancy for women is 34years.
some of the contributing factors of the country's meltdown are:
- unemployment is estimated to be approximately 90%
- Economic turmoil, Balloning debt, sporadic shortages of commodities
- Cholera outbreak "Health delivery system in near total collapse"
- Skilled professionals and loberers have and continue to leave Zimbabawe in massive numbers
- The rate of Poverty sprung up, more than 1,3million children have been orphaned by the HIV\AIDS causing surving grandparents to bear the burden of caring for their grandchildren
Life expectancy for women is 34years.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Welcome to our Blog
About Zimbabwe
Population : 12 million
Area : 390000 sq. km
Capital Harare
Languages English, Shona, Ndebele
Location: Southern Africa, bordered by South Africa in the south, Mozambique in the east, Zambia in the north, Botswana and Namibia in the south and north west
Climate: Sub-tropical mainly temperate climate with summer rainfall (normally from November to March, usually late afternoon) and dry winters with no rainfall
Religion: Christianity predominates
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