8: Yoni Springs

Team Members: Jamie C., Adan C., Sanovia F., Shawnterra J., Solangel M.

Impact Partner: Michelle Mclean Children Trust (Namibia)

The Challenge: Yoni Springs aims to address the lack of personal feminine hygiene resources, menstrual sanitation products, and other medical supplies for women in order to help more women of all ages to receive an education and work.

SDGs Addressed: (3) Good Health & Well-Being, (5) Gender Equality

The Solution: We propose to fabricate medical centers that provide menstrual hygiene and medical products, which would facilitate dispersing them to the community. Some of these products would include: pads, tampons, rags, wipes (disinfecting and person use), soap, towels, underwear, heating pads, panty liners, ibuprofen (pain killers), water, birth control (to regulate and lessen the pain), and more. Also, providing boxes full of such products for those who are not able to make it to the facility. There would be posters/diagrams on how to use menstrual products and facilitated sex education for these girls and women.

The Reason: Being that most of our group consists of women, we heavily relate to this issue and believe that this is an intensely pressing issue for our sex. Reckoning that when we don’t have menstrual products when there is an emergency, one can only imagine the effects of not having them at all would have on other people’s life. The absence of feminine products fabricates a barrier towards education and the workforce. As soon as we were informed about the issue and the situation in the Namibian communities, we wished to create something for all them to have the same opportunities we have.