Dobsonville born youngster, Mpho Mogoro is using her Non-Profit Organisation to drive a new agenda that seeks to end to period poverty for girls in under resourced township schools.

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This as she led a massive sanitary towel donation at Enkolweni Primary School, on Friday September 1, in a bid to bring awareness and inspire young girls.

Mogoro, who is a former learner at the institution in Dobsonville, together with the Joseph’s Project run by City life church, on Friday donated over 500 sanitary towards to the learning institution.

She shared that through the initiative, she wanted to use her personal experience to help keep girls in school without worrying about sanitary wear.

“When my peers were carefree and wild, I would be worried about what am I going to use when it’s that time of the month because money was tight, as my parents were faced with expensive varsity fees,” she said.

“I could not afford to get sanitary towels and as a girl child, it hurts when you are forced to use a cloth just to get through those couple of days.”

The NPO, Caring For Girls SA (CFGSA) which she founded earlier this year, is dedicated to caring and uplifting young girls in previously disadvantaged communities through fighting period poverty, menstruation education, career mentorship and essential resources to equip them for life after school.

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The campaign which was started in August for Women’s Month donated nearly 500 pads for 100 girls across grade 4-7 who received sanitary packs which included five packs of sanitary towels.

This is the second donation at the school, where they previously donated over 400 pads earlier in the year.

“It was heart-warming, now they won’t have to worry for another five months. And for us the idea is to encourage the girls and assure them that something bigger than their background awaits them in the world. We also give them self-care tips,” the marketing graduate said.

Pastor Bianca Malton, Senior Pastor at City Life Church said, “We really wanted to jump in and get involved with the sanitary drive because we understand the long term impact it can have on these young learners who comes from under resourced backgrounds and struggle to afford these basic essential hygiene products.

“We understand the ripple effect it can also have on the learner’s learning and performance which in turn affects their future.

“So it brings us great joy to have been able to reach out to the school and meet a need in that particular community,” Malton concluded.

Furthermore, the senior pastor said they will be throwing their support behind initiatives and communities where there is a need such as Dobsonville and other parts of Soweto. She also added that through the initiative they hoped to keep more young girls in school as they look to donate to more communities.

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