Menstruation is an intrinsic part of a woman’s life, and yet, for many, it turns out to be a horrid recurring experience due to lack of access to basic resources like sanitary pads.
Before schools were shutdown due to the Coronavirus pandemic last year, reports indicated that almost two-thirds (61%) of Ugandan girls miss at least a day of school every year, due to among others the inconvenience of menstruation.
Gospel musician Zabuli on Friday announced intention of once again responding to this crisis by allocating part of her upcoming ‘Girl Get Up’ concert proceeds to buying sanitary pads for vulnerable women through a charity named PADS for HER Uganda.
This will happen on 13 March, 2021 at Mavuno Church, based in Kabalagala at Tirupati Mazima Mall, starting 2pm.
“Every ticket you purchase, some proceeds go to buying another vulnerable queen reusable sanitary pads from PADS FOR HER – Uganda,” she said.
The charity organisation earlier unveiled its sustainable reusable sanitary pads convenient for fighting period poverty named the ‘wabibi pad’.
They observed that “a girl is assured of using it for more than a year.”
Girl Get Up, which has become an annual event for Zabuli, seeks to transform the young generation for Christ and help women carrying past hurts and trauma encounter God’s healing and restoration.
Born Jaliah Nasejje, Zabuli explained last year that many women in Church today live with unseen wounds and trauma due to devastating circumstances they experienced in the past including abuse, broken relationships, betrayal, rejection, addictions, sexual harassment among others.
According to her, such wounds can hold one back and damage their sense of well-being and wholeness, hence the need to learn to deal with them and press forward.
“‘Girl Get Up’ is your space if you need a woman as strong as you. A fighter within you needs her similar league to get better, iron sharpens iron. Me and you, on days like this, get an opportunity to become one in understanding God to become answers to the world, and hope to millions,” she said Friday.
