"Return Back Dropped Out Students" - A Drama by the Students of Wazza

As part of imagine1days program to support education for young girls in Ethiopia, imagine1day recently partnered with Lunapads, a women-owned small business based in Vancouver, Canada whose mission is to help women have healthier and more positive experiences of their menstrual cycles, and by extension, their bodies overall.

Through various fundraising initiatives, the gals at Lunapads sent several Pads 4 Girls Kits (http://www.lunapads.com/department.aspx?deptid=5&&RD=1) to Ethiopia with imagine1days Executive Director, Sapna Dayal on her recent trip in May 2009. Sapna met with the Girls Club at the Wazza Primary School in Tigray, Ethiopia and discussed the issues that arise when girls begin to menstruate. Many are forced to drop out of school, enter into early marriages and have children, robbing them of their right to education. She gave them the kits and new underwear as aids for teaching and awareness building.

One week after Sapna met with the girls, the imagine1day team was invited back to the school for the performance of a play written and performed by the girls club. It was a magical experience to watch an entire school of boys and girls ages six to fifteen, silently absorbed in the drama highlighting cultural norms and practices that result in gender disparity and female school drop outs.

imagine1day has been supporting the community of Wazza for the past year and a half, helping bring quality, sustainability and equality to their incredible school.

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Thanks Lunapads!