Who we are
We fight to eradicate period poverty in schools, empowering girls to reach their full educational potential.
Who We Are
We are a girls and young women empowerment non-profit charity organisation dedicated to ending period poverty in schools.
Our Foundation recognises period poverty as a barrier to girls and young women’s education and how greatly it affects their future role in society and its psychological consequences including shame, low self-esteem, stress and anxiety. Period poverty accounts for a large percentage and young women educational absenteeism and exposure sexual exploitation due to lack of financial means to afford menstrual hygiene products.
Our Approach
We Facilitate Safe Learning Spaces
Research has shown that more girls are being enrolled into schools and yet girl’s education attainment and attendance levels have plunged.
To keep girls in school and increase their educational attainment levels, we strive to create a leaning environment where girls can stay in school and equally thrive as boys. We put in place working mechanisms that will eliminate period poverty as a barrier to girls’ education, which exposes them to infections, psychological trauma and other lifelong impacts of period poverty.
Our foundation believes that giving girls access to menstrual hygiene products and information needed to sustain a good menstrual health, protect girls from sexual abused and exploitation, school dropout and early marriage, which subject girls to a lifetime of financial dependency and other forms of abuse.
01.
— Our Mission
To end to period poverty in schools and improve girl’s educational attainment levels.
02.
— Our Vision
A world in which a basic biological occurrence is no longer a barrier to girls’ educational attainment and where menstrual health matters.
03.
— Our Story
EPPIS Foundation was created to end period poverty as a barrier to girls’ education. Our foundation realises the significance of girl’s educational attainment in improving their future lives and how greatly it contributes towards a nation’s development. we work to break biological barriers that put girls at a disadvantage.
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