Tag: uman tok

a girl with a tear rolling down her face

How a Sierra Leonean NGO is tackling period poverty in schools

Tens of millions of girls around the world regularly miss school because of their periods. A local NGO in Sierra Leone is using reusable menstrual hygiene kits and sexual and reproductive health education to keep girls in the classroom.

‘Uman Tok’ event at the University of Illinois will explore global efforts to address period poverty

Journalists from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign are working with student reporters in Sierra Leone to explore the issue of period poverty. The work will be presented in a documentary film titled, “Uman Tok: Tailoring Hope, Renewing Futures.”