Days for Girls Eswatini

  We are excited to introduce you to Lindiwe, the wonderful Director of Days for Girls' Social Enterprise in Eswatini. Lindiwe, a devoted mother and grandmother, brings her wealth of experience as a former teacher to this  transformative work. During her time with Support to Education (a training program funded by the European Union), a female teacher asked her about period poverty and supporting schools. This key question stuck with Lindiwe. Driven to find a lasting solution, Lindiwe discovered Days for Girls—the first menstrual-related organization she found that included an educational component.  "The teacher in me said this is the right program,"  Lindiwe shared. With over seven years at Days for Girls, Lindiwe’s dedication to advancing menstrual equity is truly inspiring. She works hard to engage everyone—men, governments, women, older women, and young girls—in the journey toward menstrual equity.

.                                                   In collaboration with the Aids Health Foundation (AHF), Day for Girls took part in a groundbreaking walk towards advocating for the end of sanitary products tax. Over 70% of the Eswatini population does not afford to buy sanitary pads. Tax on menstrual products increases lack of access to sanitary pads for women and girls, especially low-income consumers. Insufficient access to menstrual products results to menstruators facing insurmountable barriers when managing their period. Girls end up missing school because they do not afford menstrual health products. The walk was a public act of objection, a call for change and path to achieving menstrual equity. Women, men, boys and girls came together to express dissent towards the lack of affordability of menstrual health products. A decision to lift tax on sanita...