"You are most welcome our friends from USA and our ground soldiers for the support you have been rendering to our school and particularly our girls.

I have the pleasure and privilege to welcome you all today to Manyenya Primary School. I am thrilled to see you once again. Your contributions of supporting our girls has changed their attitude towards education even if they are in their special days as females. Before you came in to support, most of our girls from needy or humble backgrounds would stay away from school for almost a whole week, hence affecting their studies and have a negative toll on their Primary Seven cycle results at the end of the year.

I can proudly assure you that your support has vividly minimized absenteeism and our daughters are competing favorably with boys courtesy of the support you render to them. We say thank you.

We indeed appreciate your support and we pray that may the good Lord who convicted you to have this idea continue using you as you reach out to other needy communities.

As I conclude I pray to God to grant you safe journey mercies as you go back to meet your families. Amen!

Meet some of our girls --

Our pad program is called Tooke Girls. Every month we give each girl in our program a gift packet of 8 disposable sanitary pads.

Making perfect attendance possible for Primary School girls -

graduation, not early marriage!

Tooke Girls Manufacturing Plant

Mbale Uganda

Our all-volunteer workforce making pads

Our sanitary pads use banana stems as the absorption medium, and will absorb up to 12 times their weight in liquid! The pads are sanitized, disposable, and biodegradable.

The word Tooke (pronounced TOW-key) means banana in Swahili.

Sharon, Pammela, J.R., Diana, George

Board Meeting discussing the mission and preliminary planning to purchase and build a new fenced compound.

Chris and Edith deciding on what delicious food to order at our favorite restaurant, Colubus.

J.R., Chris, George & Diana enjoying the view at Lake Victoria.

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