Although menstruation is an integral part of human life, it is often considered a taboo and has met many negative cultural hindrances and attitudes. Women and girls in the Awutu Senya East municipality especially those in school suffer most from stigma and lack of services and facilities to help them cope with the physical and psychological pains. Other challenges include inadequate preparations for the young girls who have not yet menstruated, lack of materials to manage menstrual hygiene, lack of private space and wash rooms , as well as inappropriate facilities for disposal of menstrual materials. The project therefore responds to these challenges by building the capacity of 10 schools and teachers to improve and uphold menstrual hygiene management among 1000 girls selected from public schools in vulnerable communities. Proposed activities to achieve the goal include i) Facilitate training sessions among beneficiary girls and senior women teachers to impact skills on other pupils, ii) supporting and training girls to locally make reusable sanitary pads: iii) Setting up welfare counselling rooms in all the 10 schools to provide psychological and emotional support for girls in menstrual period, and iv) Conduct community advocacy and sensitization durbar on menstrual hygiene management. 1) How will you define success for this program? The menstrual hygiene project will define success by the i. Increase in the number of schools and senior women teachers who are equipped to teach menstrual hygiene and its management ii. Improvement in school attendance of girls at age of menstruation iii) Reduced stigma and isolation of girls from boys due to improved knowledge and understanding on menstrual hygiene iv) Increase in the number of school girls who are able to manufacture re-usable sanitary pads v) Improvement in access to responsive information on sexual and reproductive health including menstrual hygiene among school girls and teenagers vii) Increase in access to hygienic and sanitary menstrual materials among menstruating girls 2) Provide an explanation of how this project is innovative within your local context, within a class of similar programs, or in its overall approach. As girls resort to the use of old cloth, dirty napkins and other un-hygienic materials as means of coping with menstruation, the project will actively engage the beneficiary girls to learn the skills of making re-usable sanitary pad which is relatively a new concept in the Municipality. The girls will be encouraged through project assignments to replicate the skills at household and community levels by teaching peers, siblings, and parents. In addition, the project will through the welfare counseling room, provide emotional and psychological support to girls who menstruate during school sessions. The counselling room will be unique to the beneficiary school because all the programs on menstrual hygiene focuses on information sessions without provision

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Dear Sir/Madam,
PARTNERSHIPS AND NETWORKING
SCALING UP THE MENSTRUAL HYGIENE PROJECT
We are interested in partnering with your Charity in order to form a strong alliance to make
positive change and we can together truthfully say that our efforts will be supported and
acknowledged in improving the quality of life among all those, whom we serve.
Reproductive Advocate Health Education (RAHE)-GHANA is an independent, non-profit,
development organization devoted to improving the quality of reproductive health services,
general conditions of vulnerable people and communities through a right based approach.
Since February 2014, RAHE-GHANA has been championing social intervention programs aimed
at tackling vulnerability to diseases, hunger, and violence against women and children.
RAHE-Ghana addresses these challenges under its flagship project known as the Menstrual
Hygiene Project. Through integrated and sustainable interventions of the project, RAHE GHANA
mobilises resources and relevant stakeholders to strengthen the capacity of schools, adolescent
girls and deprived communities across Ghana in managing menstrual hygiene.
The project selects 100 adolescent girls as target beneficiaries from Primary 5 to JHS 2 for
mentorship and education on menstrual hygiene management in each school selected to
participate in the project.
The MHP specifically provides education and awareness creation on menstrual hygiene,
provides and improves access to sanitary materials through pilot training in sewing reusable
sanitary pads, establishes welfare counselling centre in schools to help girls who menstruate
during school sessions and community workshops aimed at generating communal ownership
and support for the project beyond completion stage.
As part of our commitments towards the attainment of the UN Sustainable Development Goals
especially Goal 3,4,5,6 RAHE Ghana is devoted to ensure that, about 1000 schools are
earmarked to benefit from the Menstrual Hygiene Project by 2025.
Thus every year we will be working with 143 schools to help shape the lives of over 14,000
adolsecent girls in deprived communities.
Thanks to the generosity and care of the Nederlands Albert Schweitzer Funds based in Holland,
LDS CHARITIES and the FRANCE EMBASSY in Ghana 25 schools have so far being covered by the
Menstrual Hygiene Project.

2. The Menstrual Hygiene Project is a good entry point to improve menstrual hygiene
management (MHM) and to initiate discussions on broader issues related to menstruation.
The Project objectives include the following,
To strengthen Girls menstrual hygiene management by the school management;
To increase the capacity of selected public schools to effectively manage and sustain menstrual
hygiene and sanitation practices;
To increase awareness on proper hygiene and sanitation practices among pupils and
community members
To realise these objectives the Board of RAHE GHANA proposes to conduct training sessions for
girls and senior women teachers, support participating schools to set up separate rest rooms
for girls in menstrual period, support school management in piloting the local production of
sanitary pads and menstrual management in schools, and to carry out community sensitization
and awareness program on menstrual hygiene.
RAHE GHANA seeks to mobilize resources at the community level as well as from international
organisations and prospective stakeholders to carry out programs under the Menstrual Hygiene
Management Project.
We therefore call on all stakeholders and international donors to rally behind to make this
project a successful one.
We are interested in partnering with your Charity in order to form a strong alliance to make
positive change and we can together truthfully say that our efforts will be supported and
acknowledged in improving the quality of life among all those, whom we serve.
VISION
Our vision is to create a society in which citizens are empowered to equitably access the whole
spectrum of quality social services and national resources.
MISSION
• To actively work with communities to identify community context challenges and adopt cost
effective ways of addressing them
• To improve the capacity of target communities and schools to understand and demand
responsive health services from governmental stakeholders
• To achieve social and economic development and improved quality of life for rural
households and communities with emphasis on women and children, youth, the elderly, the
disabled persons, orphans and other special groups
• To promote and provide access to quality basic education for children and school dropouts
within deprived rural communities
• To increase access to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation so as to ultimately reduce
water related and fecal-based diseases

3. • To improve the health conditions of communities through elimination of health hazards in the
environment that lead to untimely death among adults and children
Our portfolio of work has three main constituencies in focus namely children, the youth and
women in both rural and urban communities across Ghana.
RAHE-GHANA operates along six broad programs areas. These are: -
o Public Health.
o Education.
o Youth Development
o Human Rights and Social Justice
o Child Rights
o Gender and Women Empowerment
OUR CORE VALUES:
• As a people centred institution, we seek to act with passion for the poor, the disadvantaged
and the vulnerable, while upholding credibility and professionalism.
• An operating culture based on transparency, dialogue, and team-working
• We value the knowledge and experience of our colleagues and institutional allies around the
world and ensure that their ideas are accommodated in our decision-making processes
• We seek to be flexible and adaptable, responding quickly to changing circumstances and
learning from practice
In this regard we are in need of a Partner to assist us in achieving our aims.
We have therefore chosen you and we hope you will partner us.
Yours Sincerely.
Rimmy Francis Amakye
Reproductive Advocate Health Education-Ghana (RAHE-GHANA)
P. O. Box KN 6026 Kaneshie
Accra Ghana West Africa
Tel: 00233303967387/233504593553
Email: rheghana@gmail.com
Website: https://rheghana.webs.com/

4. Reproductive Advocate Health
Education (RAHE)-Ghana.
‘Alone We Can Do Little, Together We Can Do Much’.
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5. Who We Are?
An Independent, Non-profit, Development Organization
devoted to improving the quality of health services,
general well being of people and communities through
a right based and professional approach.
Vision
‘A society in which citizens are empowered to
equitably access the whole spectrum of quality
social services and national resources.’
https://rheghana.webs.com/
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6. ❑ RAHE GHANA is committed to the 10 global
principles, encapsulated in the areas of human
rights, labor, anti- corruption and transparency.
thus the organization has A ‘Participant Status’
With the United Nation Global Compact Based In
New York, USA.
❑ Following our obligation to Socio-economic
Initiatives and values in Ghanaian communities,
RAHE-GHANA has been awarded Special
Consultative Status With The United Nations
Economic And Social Council (ECOSOC).
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7. PROGRAMS
❑ Public Health
❑ Education
❑ Youth Development
❑ Human Rights And Social Justice
❑ Child Rights
❑ Gender And Women Empowerment
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8. IMPLEMENTED PROGRAMS
❑ The Menstrual Hygiene Management
Project
❑ The Women Empowerment Program
(WEP) Project
❑ Skills Training Project
❑ Action Mobilization Campaign for the
SDGS
❑ Educational Sponsorship Program
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9. ORGANIZATIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS
❑ Through our flagship menstrual hygiene management project earmarked for 8500
adolescent girls in the Awutu Senya East And Assin North Municipal, we are actively
working to address barriers often faced by adolescent girls in the school environment
by providing safe spaces for the girls to acquire the skills of sewing the reusable
sanitary pads.
❑ We also sensitize them on resourceful knowledge and information on issues surrounding
menstruation and the need to prevent premarital and unsafe sex.
❑ Under the Menstrual Hygiene Project we have set up menstrual facilities across 55
basic schools for girls to safely manage menstruation during school hours, thus leading
to a more supportive school environment ready for girls to be educated, respected
and heard.
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10. ❑ Trained over 364 women with vocational
skills in Gari making, Oil Palm processing,
Soap and Batik making
❑ Assisted about 115 children and young
people in deprived and rural communities to
complete junior secondary education through
the timely provision of text books, school
bags, shoes, stationeries and payment of
educational bills
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11. THE MENSTRUAL HYGIENE MANAGEMENT PROJECT
❑Consists of 4 main components at the school
and community level in order to address the
following
❑Lack of information on menstruation
❑Lack of sanitary materials and facilities
❑Low level of knowledge on menstrual health
❑Myth, social stigma and negative gender norms
about menstruation
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Skills Training
Education
and
Mentorship
Provision
of
Menstrual
Facilities
Community Support
Mobilization and
Advocacy

12. Skills Training
❑Interactive sessions on alternate methods for absorbing flow
including (tampon, disposal sanitary pads, menstrual cup and
the re usable sanitary pads)
❑Pilot skills training program in sewing re-usable sanitary
pads among the selected project beneficiaries.
❑Girls are encouraged through project assignments to teach
their peers, parents and close associates, (with a projected
ratio of 1:3, about 3000 girls are to benefit indirectly from
training about 1000 young women).
❑Schools will be stocked with reusable sanitary pads for girls
who are caught unaware in menstruation during school sessions.
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14. Education
❑Weekly lessons on menstrual hygiene management
❑1000 young women to receive information on
selected topics in menstrual hygiene management.
❑These lessons are facilitated by the school
coordinators and female teachers
❑Collaborative learning (debates, quiz, symposia,
drama, sports , workshops, project assignments)
❑Technology enhanced learning (Facebook,
WhatsApp platforms, referral to online resources,
teaching and learning materials, digital
presentations, twitter, Instagram, snap chat )
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15. Facilities
❑Establish welfare counselling rooms in all the
project schools. These centers will be
❑Used by girls and female teachers who
menstruate during school sessions
❑Stocked with bed, pillow, wash materials,
including, water, soap, towel, and re useable
sanitary pads
❑Manned by female teachers who will provide
counseling and support to the adolescents
girls who experience menstruation in school
❑Used as changing and resting rooms for girls
who experience menstrual pains and
discomfort
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16. A Project beneficiary admires items donated by RAHE-GHANA to stock the Welfare Counselling Rooms situated in
all our project schools.
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17. Community
Mobilization
❑Breaking social norms, stigma,
negative perception and taboos
❑Communal ownership and
support for the menstrual
hygiene project
❑Build and strengthen
relationships for project
continuity
❑Enhance and design new
programs
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18. THE MENSTRUAL HYGIENE MANAGEMENT PROJECT
Benefits
Presents good entry point to improve menstrual hygiene
management (MHM) among young women
Provide the space to initiate education on menstrual
health
❑ Pave the way towards actions to address the MHM
challenges in schools and communities.
❑ Mobilize community support and co-create programs
that aims at countering myth, social stigma and negative
gender norms surrounding menstruation
❑ Enhance the confidence of young women and
adolescents to fully participate in school and community
life
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19. Strategic Project Plan
❑RAHE-GHANA is working towards UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 3,4,5,6 where
about 1000 schools are earmarked to benefit from The Menstrual Hygiene Project By 2025
❑Thus every year we will be working with 143 schools to help shape the lives of over 143,000
young women in basic schools and deprived communities
❑Thanks to the generosity and care of The Netherlands Albert Schweitzer Funds, the Ghana
Education Service, LDS Charities, Global Health Strategies and the France Embassy In Ghana 55
Schools have been covered by the Menstrual Hygiene Project
❑We therefore humbly appeal to all relevant actors to support our noble Projects, through
Partnerships, Grants, Donation And Technical Cooperation
Thank You.
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20. Project Partners
For Further Enquiries, kindly Contact
The Programs Coordinator
On Telephone + 233 54 307 9274
Email: rheghana@gmail.com
Website: http://rheghana.webs.com
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