Harmony School Foundation

Men supporting women Harmony delivered feminine hygiene products to wonderful young men from SACS High School in Newlands. They raised money to provide sanitary pads for marginalized young women to prevent the girls from missing school. Guided by head of SACS Outreach, Stuart Barnard. Well done SACS men 👍👏👍

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Quote from Adv. Bongani Christopher Majola in his 2019 article "The Cycle of the Menstrual Burden," highlighting the lack of dignity in failing to provide women and girls with proper sanitary products;

"The lack of menstrual hygiene products inflicts indignity upon millions of women and girls. They continue to experience a menstrual cycle with no clean materials to manage the period in a dignified manner. There is no dignity without basic necessities such as sanitary napkins. This perpetuates a culture of silence that forces many to cope in isolation."

In 2014, WASH United initiated International Menstrual Hygiene Day in an effort to eliminate the taboo in discussing menstruation. Now, we continue to use it as a day to spread awareness and stress the importance of access to feminine hygiene products.

Girls in South Africa routinely miss five days of school per MONTH due to a lack of access to feminine hygiene products. Providing free pads and tampons to female students can keep them in school.
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Roughly 2.1 million girls, between the ages of 12 and 18 years that are living below the poverty line in South Africa, need to resort to using old clothes, rags, newspapers, leaves, bark and grass because they cannot afford feminine hygiene products. As a result, these girls can be absent for up to 60 days per school year.

By providing free menstrual pads to girls, we could reduce that number to zero by keeping girls in school, and sharing this post with the hashtag.

We often get calls from caring headmistresses wanting to get their school into our program so that they can support their girls. This was the case with Nobantu Primary School Ny 89 Guguletu & we are happy to say they have received their first delivery 😀 They sent us these great photos.

Harmony School Foundation started supporting another new school today. Lehlohonolo School in Gugulethu received their first stock of free pads for the grade 4-7 students. All out schools receive pads every month. Girls start menstruating as early as grade 4.
Help us keep our South African girls at school with dignity. Donate to Harmony today. It cost only R15 to support a girl for a month - 20 pads.

Harmony School Foundation delivered 500 packets of pads for the girls at Bongo Primary in Gugulethu.
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All girls deserve the same opportunity to succeed at school. Let’s help South African girls to excel at school by allowing them to attend school with dignity every school day ........even during their menstruation. Thanks to The Trailblazers Club for choosing Harmony School Foundation as their charity for 2018. Please support Harmony and the Trailblazers Club in the fundraising drive. Kaylin Simmons Thomas Mountford Tim Hillock Geordie Louise Gottgens Nicola Lugard

Harmony School Foundation free pads distribution & signing Girls receiving and signing for pads