What People are Saying

What a lovely team you have, and amazing job you do! Thank you so much for a wonderful program that I have witnessed during the Menstrual Health Education Campaigns that you have conducted in Mara. The program carries a crucial knowledge and information that I wish every girl in the country could have access to it: you guys are doing a wonderful job to communicate that. It was well-designed and organized; each activity in  the schedule was placed in a very thoughtful manner. The teachers - Ruth and Hawa- were perfect for the job. They were energetic, full of passion, and with enough knowledge, experience and additional skills to deliver all that to their audience. Please keep up the great work you are doing to touch the lives of boys and girls in Tanzania.

Partner

We go to school everyday and learn important things, but we haven’t had the opportunity to get a place to learn about who we really are, and importantly how to set our life’s goals, to be guided in our career, and to learn about leadership and practice, and our bodies. EPN’s Msichana camp for me was a safe space that changes girls lives instantly. I want to come every holiday. I want every girl to be here every holiday.

I found out about EPN from a friend. She told me about the problem they were trying to solve and the program outline. I was almost in disbelief about the scale of the problem and was hopeful  that my support might help slightly improve the situation.  But then the statistics of people served started rolling in. And then the photos and videos of hundreds of girls and women packing classrooms to hear the program followed the statistics. And I realized that my support for EPN was the most impactful and cost-effective charitable donation that I’d made in my life.

Donor

The Hope Center for Girls and Women in Tanzania would like to thank EPN and Nomad Tanzania for facilitating Hygienic and Menstruation education campaigns to girls staying to the safe house in Serengeti and Butiama. Menstruation education helped girls and women staff solve some menstruation problems at the safe house, and we thank you very much for distributing reusable sanitary pads to all the girls.

This special training is more needed to women and girls in the villages, schools and safe houses which protect girls. This was the first Menstruation education to reach the girls at staff at our Centers.

We hope to see this special education reaching schools and community at large.

Program Recipient

As a newly formed Rotary Club looking to support women’s empowerment and opportunity in a largely male dominated society, we found ourselves trying to start up a sanitary pad project for local school children. The Einoti Secondary School Pads Project was the last Project of the year to be presented to our club. It is no accident that it then turned put to be the first project completed. This comes down to EPN’s efficiency and tireless desire to get things done!

Partner Organization

I lead 27 girls from our community and neighboring schools on a Saturday to come to EPN offices so that we can get training on menstruation and get pads. We heard from students in other areas that EPN provides pads and education, so I collected my 27 friends from different schools to come here and ask EPN to teach us. We didn’t find anyone at the offices since it was a Saturday and we didn’t tell them in advance, so a neighbor called one of EPN staff and she rushed to the offices to see us. It was shocking for her to actually see a lot of us waiting. She promised us to come on a set date when they would have sanitary pads for us and a scheduled class. We went home happy and waited on the date, 50 of us came on that set date because more of our friends wanted to come. We got trained, pads to last us three years, and underwear. Some of us had only one pair of underwear. EPN, thank you so much for doing this for us.

It has been a great honor for School Girl Essentials (SGE) to partner with EPN. The organization came at the right time, when we were in great need of professional Trainers for Menstrual  Hygiene Education to our  beneficiaries. We have gotten a lot of positive feedback from the schools that EPN has offered the training and indeed it is such an impactful partnership. EPN came in handy and truly, this has raised our bar very high. We can not wait for our partnership to go even further than where we are right now.

Partner Organization

A teacher sent my daughter at home to tell me to come to school the next day for a training. I was shocked and kept asking myself what sort of training for a mother like me! When I went to school early morning next day, I found a lot of other mothers at school, all lined up to go to the classroom. We went in the these visitors started talking about periods and so many things. In the beginning we felt embarrassed to hear the word “Period” spoken so normally, but as minutes went by we were all so attentive to hear the right information about period from these people. Our girls were laughing ear to ear and so did we. Honestly, we wished we could go home and collect our girls and other mothers to come and listen. Now we can talk about period freely and helping our daughters and neighbors, couldn’t more programs include mothers?