In South Sudan, girls and women are deprived of access to adequate sanitation facilities. Female prisoners are using dirty rags & cotton during their menstrual cycle. You can help change this !
Juba Central Women’s Prison Sanitation Project:
Improving the lives of women and girls in Juba Central Prison
The Problem:
Every girl and woman has the right to sanitation protection. However, so many girls and women in South Sudan lack the adequate supplies to sufficiently manage their basic needs. This is even worse when you’re a girl or woman and in prison. Juba Central Prison is now ten times beyond its carrying capacity. All aspects of living conditions in it-water, sanitation, hygiene, and space are so poor that they are difficult to imagine. Severe lack of health care and sanitary facilities including sanitary pads has meant that female prisoners have to use dirty rags during their menstrual cycle. These practices not only cause infection and disease but are also a source of humiliation and emotional distress, and prevent women from going about their daily lives. This is not okay!
Women and girls have specific health needs because when a girl or women is menstruating, she needs sanitary protection and requires more frequent access to sanitary facilities. A pregnant woman needs appropriate food and medical supervision. If they give birth in prison, they must be able to do so under suitable conditions. After giving birth, a woman needs post-natal care and good hygienic living conditions. These basics need are not currently met in Juba Central Women’s Prison. There is an urgent need for a safe water supply, sanitation and hygiene facilities to reduce the vulnerability of inmates to cholera and other waterborne, water washed diseases that can quickly spread across the prison.
If getting your period is a pain in the neck, imagine dealing with it in a prison where there are no sanitary supplies.
Hopefully things will improve if we all come together and do something about it because no one is doing anything about it. No one is dealing with it. So we must, and with your help we absolutely can.
Solution
The situation for girls and women who start menstruation in Juba Central Women’s is sad and needs urgent action. 90 out of 100 girls and women in Juba central women’s prison lack access to menstrual sanitary materials and facilities such as water supplies ,toilets and changing rooms to manage their menses hygienically and with dignity. These women end up using papers, Rags, mattress stuffing during menses, which is unhygienic and has negative impacts on their health. This campaign is to ensure good menstrual hygiene for 400 female inmates in Juba Central women’s prison by creating a supportive environment and Dignity for them to manage their menses hygienically, safely and in privacy.
Juba Central Women’s Prison current bathing facilities. No roof. No doors. No privacy.
Imagine you’re a girl or a woman and you know that time of the month is tomorrow…if only you also know where to get sanitary pads, clean water, a toilet and somewhere private to wash.
What do you do when you’re thirsty? Across Australia, we turn on the bloody tap and enjoy instant access to clean, drinkable water. It’s that easy. What’s not easy is imagining what life would be like without a clean and safe toilet available when you need it. This is unfortunate reality for most women and girls in Juba central women’s prison.
Pregnant? Congratulations! But will you have maternity pads?
Learning of a pregnancy should be an exciting moment – but for women in Juba Central women’s prison, it is a time of fear and uncertainty over how and where they will deliver their baby. Because mothers and babies are at risk of infection if they deliver in unhygienic conditions. A newborn baby can die from infection, which can often be prevented with safe clean water, good sanitation and good hygiene.
That’s why we believe improving access to sanitation is a critical step towards reducing the impact of these diseases in Juba Central women’s prison. It will helps create physical environments that enhance safety, dignity and self-esteem of female inmates. Yes, we all know that sanitary pads are not life-saving items, but they do play a crucial role in preserving a woman’s health and dignity, and keeping her from harm.
We believe that simple changes can make a big difference in Juba Central women’s prison: Handwashing facilities, clean water to drink, supply women and girls with sanitary pads, rehabilitate toilets and bathing facilities. Access to these basic necessities is not merely a basic human need, but a human right. If we reach our goal, we will supply the women prison store with mix food items, to provide the kitchen with a reliable source of food, that will take the stress away and provide the warm and nutritious meals that they very much needed.
With your help, we can ensure over 400 women and girls in Juba central prison get clean water, good sanitation and a daily meal. Things they shouldn’t have to go without.
Short-Term Impact
Girls and women will live a better & dignified life by using hand-washing facilities and sanitary pads during menstruation and child birth period. This will allow women and girls the security of not having to resort to poor, unhealthy solutions.Reliable and safe sanitation will bring social, environmental and educational benefits to the women and girls in Juba Central Prison. That’s the impact YOUR SUPPORT creates!
Long-Term Impact
Providing women and girls with better meals, safe drinking water, and better hygienic facilities and education regarding how to use them is the first step to empowering girls and women in prison to create a better future for themselves and others when they get out of prison.
What We Need and Where it’s Going
We need $60,000.00 in order to help us get our project up and running. It will be distributed in these ways:
$3,500 will buy reusable sanitary pads for 400 women and girls. We will buy these from Days for Girls in Uganda, and they last for 3 years!
$6,750 Will put a roof, doors and plastering to the bathing facilities that you see in the above picture.
$4700 Will pay for water and rehabilitation of hand-washing facilitates.
$11,050 will pay for sewage clean up and rehabilitation. The sewage system currently is overflowing with human waste.
$30,000 will pay for four months food supply to all prisoners, men an women in Juba Central Prison.
$4,000 will pay for transport.
We must count on people like you, for the very success of this project. Your empathy, open-mindedness, prayers, and most importantly your FINANCIAL SUPPORT can see us through to actualizing this project.
We created this campaign because we care, and we hope that you do too, because your generosity and support could make all the difference in the fruition of this campaign. It would be great to have 530 people to contribute $100. Of course you may contribute more or less. any amount at all; it would be much appreciated and well used. We don’t have a million friends to share this with. But, we have the Internet and wonderful people who want to see this project succeed. By supporting this project you are being a hero for showing care and enabling support for a humanitarian project. Your support will make a big difference for these persons desperately in need of help!
Final Thank You
Thank you so much for your support, whether it is through donating, spreading the word, or keeping us in your prayers. We hope that you will be inspired to partner with us, to help us improve access to safe, sustainable drinking water, sanitation facilities, and improving hygiene practices for women and girls in Juba Central Prison. We will continue to keep you posted on what your donation helped us achieve. We appreciate all your support.
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