'1 GIRL, 1 PAD' CAMPAIGN

Shades of Us is a forum for open discussions on issues affecting Africa, Africans and people of African descent, with a view of changing the ‘dark continent’ narrative of Africa. Since our inception in 2014, most of our work have been online campaigns for or against social issues and dysfunction. At the start of the year, we pledged to start doing more people-to-people work to affect our society; one community at a time.

It is in lieu of this that we are partnering with Save our Women (SOW) Foundation for the ‘1 Girl, 1 Pad’ campaign.

Save Our Women (SOW) Foundation seeks to help young girls be their best in everything they do.

Also partnering with Save Our Women (SOW) Foundation is Women Regaining Value, a not-for-profit organization aimed at empowering women lost to social degradation.

Here is what you need to know about the project and how you can be a part of it.

WHAT IS ‘1GIRL 1PAD’?

‘Project 1Girl 1Pad’ is a campaign that is aimed at reaching out to young women in Internally Displaced Persons camp in Kaduna. This campaign would involve engaging women in Kaduna and its environs to donate a single pad towards the success of the campaign. Our goal is to ensure every female in the selected IDP camp has enough pads for the next 3 months assuming she has a menstrual period of 3days.

WHY ‘1GIRL 1PAD’?

Girls in IDP camps have had a hard time maintaining menstrual hygiene during their periods due to the inability to have and purchase sanitary pads. So ‘1Girl, 1 Pad’ project seeks to help these girls by providing pads through building a culture of giving back and volunteerism among women.

WHEN IS ‘1GIRL 1PAD’?

The campaign ends with a visit to an IDP camp on the 28th of May, 2017, in commemoration of International Menstrual Hygiene Day. The build up to the campaign will run all through May with campaign awareness visits to schools in Kaduna.

HOW CAN I BE A PART?

Make a donation of a pad today. You can also ask your friends and followers to be a part of the campaign by sharing posts about the project using the #1Girl1Pad and #May28 hashtags.  

To donate a pad, contact the following people;

LOCATION	SOW CONTACT PERSON	PHONE NUMBER
ABUJA	Elizabeth Doo	08080905888 08167225202
AKWA IBOM	Justina	08130994549
ILORIN, Kwara State	Peace	08161260737
JOS, Plateau State	Dela Tsintop	08130400344 07034509602
KWARA	Olawale	07036462896
LAGOS	Bukola	08034790750
MAKURDI, Benue State	Natasha	09054895775
NSUKKA, Enugu State	Mildred	07060900075
PORT HARCOURT, Rivers State	Progress	08068884561
SAMARU, ZARIA	Sadiya	08095963818
SHIKA, ZARIA	Blessing	08136514860
ZAMFARA	Fatima	07068243199

Or make cash donations to;

Account Name: Fali Zephaniah

Account Number: 0084234503

Bank: Diamond Bank

With one pad, you help a girl in an Internally Displaced People’s camp come one step closer to good menstrual hygiene. We implore you to join us in this campaign and help us ensure that girls at Internally Displaced People’s camps have one less thing to worry about.

Thank you!