Ahead of the Menstrual Hygiene Day Celebrations, Feminature Uganda, together with the West Nile Women’s Network, in a press conference, marked the climax of the “2 Euros pad a girl” drive organized by Femme Talk on May 27, 2025, in Arua City. This drive aimed to foster collaboration and voluntary donations of menstrual hygiene kits for rural girls from Koboko, Yumbe, and Obongi districts who cannot afford them.
The press conference highlighted the importance of menstrual hygiene management and education in schools for girls, the impact of period poverty on girls in Uganda, sustainable approaches to menstrual hygiene and products, policies on menstrual hygiene, and other menstrual hygiene-related issues affecting girls. Cultural taboos among the Lugbara have also been highlighted as a limiting factor for girl child development, thus the need to end them.
Powerful messages such as “I bleed every month, but I do not die.” How am I not magic?” “End the stigma. Stop the shaming; “end period poverty” were shared. These have been the barriers for women in different spaces, keeping them behind, especially financially.
Menstrual hygiene falls under Feminature Uganda’s thematic area of Sexual Reproductive Health Rights, and this press conference helped to strengthen its ties in the civic space, West Nile SRHR Coalition, and increase collaboration.
