Days for Girls Kits

Uman Tok is a partnership between Schools for Salone USA, Uman TOK Sierra Leone, and Days for Girls. The purpose of Uman Tok is to make menstrual hygiene management and education available to women and girls across Sierra Leone so they can overcome the barriers of menstruation and achieve their dreams.

Since 2016, Uman Tok has reached 11,000 students with reproductive health education. The Uman Tok team has produced and distributed 10,000 Days for Girls kits to girls and women across the country. Before Uman Tok began, 20% of girls in SfS partner schools were missing school because of their periods. There were also high rates of teenage pregnancy, which reached 65% during the Ebola outbreak. Since Uman Tok began reproductive health education and kit distribution in these schools, there have been zero cases of teenage pregnancy in any SfS partner schools, and the incidence of girls missing school because of their periods has dropped to near zero and remained there. When girls have the menstrual care they need, it empowers them to go to school and pursue a promising future.

Uman Tok provided essential employment to local women to sew the kits. This program provides a steady income and vocational training to women in Sierra Leone who would otherwise be unable to provide for themselves and their children.