Menstrual Hygiene
Gender inequality, discriminatory social norms, cultural norms, poverty, and lack of basic services like toilets and safe sanitary products can all cause menstrual health and hygiene needs to go unmet.
Gender inequality, discriminatory social norms, cultural norms, poverty, and lack of basic services like toilets and safe sanitary products can all cause menstrual health and hygiene needs to go unmet.
In many rural communities across Uganda and beyond, childhood is cut short not by natural progression, but by the weight of culture, poverty and silence.
At 1000 Hugs Foundation, we believe no girl should ever have to choose between her dignity and her education. We meet girls like Amina every day, we listen, we hug and we act.
Amidst Uganda’s vast landscapes—where the Nile weaves through fertile valleys and echoes of hope ripple across verdant hills—a disturbing silence has fallen. This silence does not signify peace, but rather a halt in progress and a deepening crisis for vulnerable populations.