I Am A Girl: Empowering Women and Protecting the Planet Through Period Education

In Mbale, Uganda, a school-aged girl beginning menstruation is much more likely to meet her bleed with fear and shame. A lack of access to menstrual products, education and/or hygiene facilities, otherwise known as period poverty, may prevent her from properly caring for her period, and the widespread stigma against menstruation may prevent her from ever learning how to do so.