About 90% of our beneficiaries are youth of which 70% are female of which 78% have reached a reproductive stage, some being in school others out of school. The majority of these girls have no access to clean and safe sanitary products or to a clean and the private place in which to change the menstrual cloths or pads and to wash. Menstruation is supposed to be invisible and silent and the girls subjected to it but hundreds of these girls are subject to restrictions in their daily lives simply because they are menstruating.  Beside the health problems due to poor hygiene during menstruation, the lack or unaffordability of facilities and appropriate sanitary products are pushing menstruating girls both temporarily and many times permanently out of school, thereby having negative impact on their right to education. In event of trying to address these issues, Aswam Youth Foundation has launched workshops and sensitizations on menstrual hygiene management in katakwi and Kampala chapters to reduce on impact caused as result of lack of sanitary pads on the side of girls in reproductive stage. The organization has moved further to equip girls with skills in making re-usable sanitary pads to increase their availability most especially to the people who need the most. We are falling short of our target of reaching 600 girls with this skill within the next two years and yet here we are with only 71 girls reached out with this important skill of sanitary pad making. We have not lost the hope knowing that much has to be done in order to realize our goal but again availability of funding will be the major driver to achieve this goal.

Malaria has been classified under the most dangerous diseases that are claiming many lives of Ugandans young and old alike. Aswam Youth Foundation has been instrumental in taking on this fight through its various activities such community sensitization on sanitation and hygiene around homestead ie clearing stagnant water and bushes which harbor mosquitoes. Through partnerships with other like-minded organization such as All Stars Kampala Association, we have managed to donate about 100 treated insecticide mosquito nets to more vulnerable households within our community.