Sisterhood steps up charity work to help the girl child

They started as just friends who met at hangouts for some fun time but later developed an organization named ‘Sisterhood’ to help less privileged girls.

Yesterday the members who include; Lindah Lisa Mukasa Charania (PRO), Nickita Evas Bachu (Media and Marketing), Olive Mugabe (Admin),  Pherrie Kimbugwe (Visionary and Foreign Publicist),,Begum Hafsa (Researcher), Samira Tumi (Funds Manager) and Tracy Nabatanzi (Operations) under their umbrella organization Sisterhood continued their charity work of reaching out to the needy/less privileged girls in different schools across the country.

This time, the Sisterhood visited Seven Hills Primary School, Nakabizi in Jinja district where they handed over sanitary pads worth millions of shillings to the girls to help them in their monthly menstrual periods.

Sisterhood’s target is the girls between ages 11-17 with menstrual hygiene as their specialty.

“We give out pads and also teach the girls how to manage their monthly periods…cleanliness and challenges,” Olive Mugabe, the organisation’s Administrator said.

Like their motto says ‘Hold My Hand’, the Sisterhood aims at empowering Uganda’s less privileged girl child one period at a time.

Sisterhood Visionary and Foreign Publicist, Pherrie Kimbugwe had this to say, “I believe and have lived by: When you give with your right hand, not even your left hand should know. When you assist or aid, only your heart should know.

So why then, one month shy to a year, of doing our Sisterhood work, do we now decide to go public?

It’s not because we want you to see that we assist, or aid or give.

It is because we want you to be aware. To get out of your comfort zone and know that the life of a less privileged girl child suffers or is dented due to all the challenges that come with menstrual health.

Low self-esteem and broken dreams because every day a less privileged girl misses school because of her period.

When we go to see our “little sisters” as we so love to refer to them, we listen to their menstrual experiences, challenges they face due to it and their day to day life. The stories aren’t always happy ones. And what they do to overcome these challenges aren’t what most of us would ever dream of doing or being faced with.

So when we share this with you….we want you to be aware that this actually happens, this is an epidemic that doesn’t stop today because every female (even the less privileged ones) has to bleed.

The need for pads in Uganda is insatiable. Girls are being born every single second of every single day. Our government or NGOs cannot do this alone. But every female, or even every male with a daughter, a sister, a mother, a wife, a female friend or female cousin….can do a little something to make a big change in a less privileged girl child’s life.

We are here to create awareness on this cause, and advocate/speak for that girl child who will never have a chance to speak to you or share her experience and challenges with you.

If everyone of us (in whatever company or organization you work for) bought one packet of pads a month, put them together with the rest of their colleagues, chose one less privileged below poverty level school and supplied them with the pads collected every month…what a huge difference that would make. It is what we ‘The Sisterhood’ do.

#theSisterhood#HoldMyHand#EmpoweringUgandasLessPrivilegedGirlChildOnePeriodAtATime.

Many thanks to Jamila Mayanja, Angela Tusiime and Joseph for your effortless dedication”.