Teens mix menstrual hygiene with sport
The girl child. Mavita gets up close and personal with some of the girls in one of the camps. PHOTO/EMANZI NDYAMUHAKI
What you need to know:
- Today, the team will camp in Adjumani District, West Nile, preaching sexual reproductive health and menstrual hygiene among young athletes.
Score Beyond has over the years gone beyond just promoting sports among girls to emphasising life skills.
The organisation works to encourage girls to play sport but also avoid indulging in activities that can easily get them off track in realising their future goals.
Today, the team will camp in Adjumani District, West Nile, preaching sexual reproductive health and menstrual hygiene among young athletes.
Menstrual Hygiene is one of the key issues that affects the effectiveness and longevity of young athletes.
Score Beyond, in collaboration with AfriPads, will distribute and encourage use of re-usable sanitary pads to young girls in Adjumani refugee areas.
“We are looking to partner with organisations to venture into the communities with the most vulnerable girls,” team leader Ali Mavita told Score.
“While we introduce sports and its various benefits to the communities, we are at the same time aware of the basic needs that these girls lack that might make them drop out of school,” she added.
Mavita is a former national team basketball player and current coach of the Gazelles and KCCA Leopards.
She has teamed up with various women sports personalities to interest more girls into sports and says while doing sports is great for the girls, teaching them basic life skills is equally important.
