Jumeirah English speaking school launches period poverty campaign

Jumeirah English speaking school launches period poverty campaign

UAE: JESS Dubai (Jumeirah English Speaking School) launched a campaign in 2019 to enable young women in underprivileged locations around the world to attend school without having to miss classes monthly due to the fact that they are menstruating. This campaign is now being supported by Linen Obsession, the bedding and sleep solutions specialists. This campaign started as a JESS students project, and is known as The Period Empowerment Project.

The student-led Period Empowerment Project creates and delivers sustainable sanitary protection to young girls in countries particularly affected by period poverty. The Project's immediate goals include using education to empower girls to break the cycle of poverty, as well as delivering 6,000 sustainable sanitary pads, along with soap and underwear, to girls living in Zambia, Vietnam, and earthquake-affected regions of Turkey and Syria. The Project aims to prevent girls from missing critical classes every month by providing them each a pouch containing six reusable sanitary pads. Lions International, Clyde and Co, Brother, and Geo SAS are among the Project’s supporters.

Louise McGauley, Head Librarian at Jumeirah English Speaking School commented: “The team at JESS created the program from the ground up, which included developing a plan for designing and sewing reusable, washable