With your support, we are accomplishing big things in Myanmar.

Communities have safe new housing, new water sources, employment training and job opportunities. Beautiful gardens are growing in IDP camps, and many displaced individuals have found new income sources. But have you considered the extra barrier in the way of half the population?  We think it’s important that everyone have the same opportunity to attend work and school. That’s why your support is also helping address what’s been called “period poverty.” 

In places where women and girls face chronic poverty, or have been displaced like many in Myanmar, they often lack access to menstrual health supplies. And without those supplies, they face significant extra barriers to work and school, which has long-term consequences for their income and well-being.

Thanks to your support, women and girls are receiving critical supplies for menstrual health management, reducing an inequitable barrier and giving them the chance to pursue their education and careers. 

Photo caption: Twenty-one-year-old Daw Shwe Yadanar Lay is a Facilitator at the Women and Girls’ Centre in Basare Camp, where members receive monthly supplies of menstrual kits. One of her responsibilities is to provide the members of the centre with information on health issues. (Photo: CLWR/Ahkhee Chel) 

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