Makerere University research fellow, Stella Nyanzi has commenced an online fundraising drive to raise money for sanitary pads for girls in rural areas. This comes after she was summoned to appear at Police Criminal Investigation Department Headquarters in Kibuli today. Nyanzi is to be grilled for her Facebook scathing attacks on First Lady, Janet Museveni.
Nyanzi shared; “To celebrate Women’s Month, I am using my interrogation at the CID headquarters in Kibuli to collect sanitary pads for distribution to Uganda’s poor daughters. Please bring clean sanitary pads and menstrual hygiene materials to Kibuli police station today.
If you are far from Kibuli but want to contribute, please send mobile-money to phone number 0771824117. Electronic contributions can be made through this link.”
The online contributions on GoFundMe.com has so far garnered $900 [over shs3,000,000] in one day. The target is $10,000 [shs35m].
Museveni’s pledge during the presidential campaigns in 2015
“I want all our daughters to attend school and remain there until they complete their studies. One of the reasons that force our daughters out of school is that when their periods start they do not have sanitary pads. When they are in class they soil their dresses. So they run away from school,” he said.
This pledge has however not been fulfilled as the First Lady, who also doubles as the Education Minister appeared before parliament and revealed that government does not have money for sanitary pads.
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