Salex Developers Initiatives Limited (SADIL)

Salex Development Initiatives intends to train 600 Women in sewing skills, provide 1,265 out of school adolescents with tailoring and soap making skills. This project will entail the making of Reusable sanitary pad kits with intention to retain more girls in school, and empower women in sustainable livelihoods in Bugiri District. The project intends to train women and girls in sewing skills (reusable sanitary pad making) and making liquid soap for improvement in menstrual hygiene and increase income levels among women in Bugiri District. The trained women will in turn train over 2,000 young women, school girls and some Local Council leaders, teachers and some parents in a vocational program of seamstress and sewing skills (reusable sanitary pad making) in the targeted communities. This will result into increased supply of reusable sanitary pad kits to girls in schools through establishment of reusable sanitary pad cottage social enterprise, enable girls to attend school and so reduce on the high primary and secondary school dropout rates, this enterprise will create employment opportunities for the young women and girls, this will be a viable income-generating activity that will provide some income to the women sewists and it will be a source of livelihood to the women around, there will be increased knowledge and skills in feminine hygiene, programmed parenthood, and general wellbeing. The project life span will be for 12 months (one year) but the inbuilt sustainability will propel the project to move forward independently. The project will be regularly monitored mainly through support supervision visits to the field activities implemented. Project staff and management meetings will be held with the women, teachers and girls to discuss and review the implementation of the project to ensure that the project is yielding the desired/intended results. Project activities: • Inception or entry meeting with District and community Local Leaders, adolescents, young women, teachers, youths’ and adolescents in Bugiri District. • Train 600 Women, provide 1,265 out of school youths with tailoring and soap making skills. The trained women will in turn train over 2,000 young women, school girls, Local Council leaders, teachers and some parents in a vocational program of seamstress and sewing skills (Reusable sanitary pad making). • Procure training equipment and materials. • Establish a tailoring cottage enterprise for to train 600 women in making Re-usable sanitary pads. • Conduct community/schools health education sessions and Ambassadors of Women’s Health training (puberty, reproductive health, Menstrual Hygiene Management, family planning, sexual assault, reproduction, dangers of early pregnancy). • Conduct supportive supervision, monitoring and evaluation of the Project Project Results: Increased retention of girls in school with the availability Hygienic Menstrual health materials at competitive prices. Increased knowledge about Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights ( ASRHR) among young women, girls and entire community. Job creation and employment opportunities for the sewists/young women and trainees/adolescents. Improved behaviors change communication in the community Good Menstrual Health Management amongst women and girls in Bugiri and surrounding communities