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Africa Educates Her Campaign - Angola

Ladies and gentlemen,

Welcome everyone to our hybrid learning platform.

We will soon be celebrating our 3rd anniversary of the Africa Educates Her campaign, a rallying call to African Union Member States, education stakeholders and youth to take positive actions to ensure that girls and young women return to school during and post Covid-19 pandemic.

Stay tuned and don't miss this event.

For now, let's remember how we celebrated our first two birthdays!

 Commemorating the Second Anniversary of Africa Educates Her Campaign, Angola

Ladies Without Plastic - Advancing Climate Justice Through the SDGs

Ladies and gentlemen,

Welcome to the 3rd edition of this extremely important educational documentary.

In this edition we are providing non-formal training in rural communities to advance climate justice through the SDGs.

Good afternoon!

Good afternoon!

How are you?

We're fine thank you!

How many of you have heard about climate change?

hmmm

Have you ever heard about climate change?

No.

And the environment?

Not either.

Never heard of the environment?

No, never.

Today we are going to talk about the importance you can have in protecting the environment. We will also talk about environmental pollution.

Did you know that plastic pollutes the environment?

We didn't know.

Seriously?

Hello! I am Sofonie Dala, we are here in rural communities to include people from this social group to participate in environmental protection ideas.

We will talk about the role these rural girls can play to protect the environment and we will also talk about the importance of reusable menstrual pads in the life of women and girls.

How many of you here already menstruate?

Both of us.

Take this. Have you ever heard about these types of sanitary napkins?

Yup.

What is this called?

Hmm absorbent.

These are reusable menstrual pads.

Do you use this type?

No no.

Girls what kind of menstrual pad do you use?

We use the plastic menstrual pad.

Did you know that plastic menstrual pads pollute the environment?

We didn't know.

Yes, plastic menstrual pads pollute the environment. We girls must be very careful with these products. Especially you little girls who haven't started menstruating yet. When you start menstruating, look for these washable and reusable pads.

Pay attention, reusable pads are better than plastic menstrual pads.

Plastic menstrual pads take many years to decompose, generate greenhouse gases and cause global warming.

Many girls miss school because they don't have the money to buy plastic menstrual pads which are very expensive.

That's why we should use reusable menstrual pads to protect the environment. In addition, they are also more economical and sustainable. They can last for 4 years and you won't have to spend money monthly to buy menstrual pads.

Let's all wear reusable menstrual pads to protect the environment.

What I have here is organic cotton, we bought this to be producing washable and reusable towels and distributing them free of charge to girls in rural communities. 

Taking pledge

Girls giving good testimonies of what they learned today.

Hello!

My name isTeresa, I'm 15 years old and I want to protect my menstrual health.

Before I was using plastic pads, now I will be using reusable menstrual pads, because I now know that plastic pads pollute the environment.

With these softer, reusable and washable pads, thousands of girls like Teresa will be able to stay in school and create a future for themsleves.

Ladies without plastic, I'm going to get rid of the plastic pads.

SAY NO TO SINGLE USE PLASTIC PADS AND LET'S END PERIOD POVERTY

We advocate for behavioral change to reduce earth vulnerability to climate change and global warming from disposable sanitary pads, at the same time mobilizing women and girls to switch back to the use of reusable sanitary pads.

Our mission is to empower women who face extreme poverty to become self-sufficient and entrepreneurial by teaching them how to make the pads themselves and enabling them to turn their acquired skill into a business.

Children singing in chorus: Let's use reusable products.

Fight against climate change, let's all protect the environment!

No young girl should miss school because of her period! 

Period poverty is the lack of access to sanitary products, menstrual hygiene education, toilets, hand washing facilities, and, or, waste management and affects millions of girls and women worldwide.

Every month, 1.8 billion people across the world menstruate. Millions of girls and women are by period poverty not only in developing countries but also in developed countries and millions of girls and women cannot attend school or work due to lack of menstrual products or clean sanitary facilities.

We continue to celebrate the 2nd anniversary of Africa Educates Her Campaign with Sofonie Dala, Angola.

If you missed part 1 and 2, please click here:

1. Congratulations! We are Celebrating the Second Anniversary of Africa Educates Her Campaign - Angola (sdgs 4;5;13) (she-leads.blogspot.com)

https://she-leads.blogspot.com/2022/09/congratulations-we-are-celebrating.html

2. Observing the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste - Africa Educates Her Campaign - Part 2 (SDG 4, 12 & 13) (she-leads.blogspot.com)

https://she-leads.blogspot.com/2022/10/observing-international-day-of.html

Congratulations! We are Celebrating the Second Anniversary of Africa Educates Her Campaign  - Angola (sdgs 4;5;13)

 PART 1

Good morning ladies and gentlemen,

Welcome everyone to our Africa Educates Her Campaign Angola 2nd Anniversary Party!

This is the big campaign that represents a critical strategy in advancing the education of girls and women in Africa during the time of Covid-19 pandemic.

The main objective was to:

1. Empower rural girls and women with skills to combat climate change;

2. Gathering information about participation of vulnerable groups in climate discussion and decision-making;

3. Documenting the access of vulnerable communities to environmental justice;

4. Helping affected communities find relevant environmental information and counter misinformation;

5. Introduce the "Ladies without plastic project" - reusable menstrual pads to rural communities.

 2022 Theme: Advancing climate justice

Our smartphones are hurting the environment

The second anniversary of the campaign was conceived and implemented in rural communities of Angola to gather information about participation of vulnerable groups in climate discussion and decision-making; and to document the access of vulnerable communities to environmental justice. We continue to visit rural communities and vulnerable people to deliver our non-formal training that cover and promote the SDGs and also accelerate the AU / Agenda 2060.

Multiplus training and activities were carried out on this great day.

This small group of vulnerable people in this region, lives in complete innocence behind the digital world we find ourselves in today.

These girls come from very vulnerable families. They have never had contact with a digital phone. On this day they learned about the negative impact smartphones have on the environment. It was shocking to learn that the biggest impact of most electronic devices is in the supply chain: mining for resources, producing the parts and assembling them. 82% of the emissions of a smartphone come from its production, so the more often we get a new one, the higher the impact.

 

"Ladies without plastic" - reusable menstrual pads

Translation: Hello, we are Joana and Fernanda, we are 12 years old. We haven't started menstruating yet, but when we start menstruating, we're going to use these reusable pads to protect the environment.

We provide interactive training in how to make safe, washable and reusable sanitary pads, so people always have access to safe menstrual protection, can help protect the environment. 

We started producing sanitary reusable pads to keep girls in school in support of the government's efforts to end the challenge facing girls failing to attend school due to menstruation.

These girls for the first time got to know washable - reusable menstrual pads and learned about green and sustainable menstruation.

The history of the Africa Educates Her campaign:

1. The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted education across the world and Angola has not been spared. By the 6th of April 2020, 53 African Union Member States had shut down all institutions of learning as a measure to curb the spread of the Coronavirus, affecting an estimated 250 million students across the continent.

2. In July 2020 AU/CIEFFA alumini were informed about the approval of the Campaign.

3. On August 29, 2020, Sofonie Dala successfully tested the campaign in Angola.

4. On 11 September 2020 Dr Muhama Ouedraogo, the Director of the African Union HRST has officially launched the African Union/Centrefor Girls & Women's Education In Africa campaign to get girls back to School, Africa Educates Her Campaign and Call for Creative Content on the learning experiences of the girl child and inniatives being taken to help girls get back to school in communities across Africa!

5. African Union International Center for Girls and Women's Education in Africa (AU/CIEFFA) with its alumni officially celebrated the first anniversary of the #Africa Educates Her Campaign on 20th September 2021. On the same occasion Sofonie Dala was elected as the campaign's ambassador in Southern Africa.

The other good news that happened on this festive date, the AU/CIEFFA selected a theme song for the campaign with the title: “I am an African girl”, written by Afrie, a young artist from Uganda. The song was officially released to the world.

6. The ambassador Sofonie Dala once again organized a mega event to celebrate the second anniversary of the campaign in rural communities of Angola on September 14, 2022, with the theme Advancing climate justice.

Congratulations. Happy first anniversary to our Africa Educates Her Campaign with Sofonie Dala - Angola (she-leads.blogspot.com)

https://she-leads.blogspot.com/2021/09/congratulations-happy-first-anniversary.html

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Congratulations. Happy first anniversary to our Africa Educates Her Campaign with Sofonie Dala - Angola

 Changing the lives of rural girls for the better