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#NoMoreLimits: Walking to keep girls in school

PARKVIEW – Caxton editorial team members were some of the participants in the 5km Red Walk at the Johannesburg Zoo.

 

The Rosebank Killarney Gazette and Sandton Chronicle teams joined other participants in the 5km Red Walk on 26 August.

The walk which took place at the Johannesburg Zoo aimed at raising awareness and educating people about the need to support girls in schools by donating sanitary towels.

According to Africa Check, about 3,7 million girls in South Africa alone, may be missing school days each month because of a lack of sanitary towels.

The Caxton editorial team takes part in the 5km Red Walk at the Johannesburg Zoo.
Nicholas Lawrence, Kefentse Diphoko, Tsholofelo Diphoko, Busisiwe Ngobe and Zanele Potelwa give their time towards walking for a good cause at the 5km Red Walk. Photo: Naidine Sibanda

Unable to afford or access proper menstrual products, many girls and women rely on crude, improvised materials such as pieces of old clothing or foam mattresses, toilet paper and even leaves to manage their menstruation, all of which are unhygienic, ineffective, and uncomfortable.

The Red Walk aimed to supply eight rural schools with three years’ worth of sanitary towels. So far three schools in Limpopo and the Eastern Cape have been identified and entrants were asked to nominate another five schools to receive donations.

Some of the participants in the 5km Red Walk at the Johannesburg Zoo. Photo: Naidine Sibanda

The hashtag is #NoMoreLimits in line with the theme set during Menstrual Hygiene Day 2018.

Those who participated in the walk would help in the following ways:

  • Funds raised from the walk will go to assisting eight South African schools with a three-year supply of sanitary towels
  • Build adequate toilets for one of the Limpopo schools so the girls can have a place to adequately maintain their hygiene while menstruating
  • Red Walk wants to play a role in ensuring that within the next seven years, no South African girl misses school or is embarrassed by menstruation
  • Promoting healthy living for Johannesburg residents by encouraging them to walk for change
  • Raise funds to buy sewing machines and hire local women to make reusable sanitary towels.

This way, the Red Walk can reach more girls across the country and across Africa faster. The charity organisation has developed a reusable sanitary towel called Go Girl and will teach women in the community to make these, thus creating employment and keep solving the lack of sanitary towels problem.

Details: Red Walk Africa www.redwalk.africa

Are you conducting any fundraising activities? Email our editor on ashtynm@caxton.co.za

 

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