Dignity should never be a barrier to learning.
Menstrual health, awareness and support in schools and remote communities.
A school environment where basic menstrual health support should not determine whether a girl can attend class.
Missing school should not be part of menstruation.
Across rural Bangladesh, menstruation still keeps girls out of school — not for medical reasons, but for the lack of a sanitary pad, a private washroom, and a straightforward conversation.
The cost is measured in missed classes and, eventually, in dropped-out students.
Dignity is not an additional service. It is part of whether a girl can participate fully in school and community life.
Dignity · Gender Equity · Participation
Support that protects dignity and participation.
Practical support combined with knowledge, conversation and safer spaces to learn.
Free sanitary product distribution
Free sanitary products distributed in schools and remote communities where access is limited.
Menstrual health awareness Gender focus
Age-appropriate menstrual and reproductive health awareness sessions delivered by female facilitators.
Teacher & guardian orientation
Orientation that helps adults understand menstrual health and support girls' participation in school.
Advocacy for school WASH facilities
Advocacy for school facilities that provide the privacy, water and sanitation needed for menstrual health.
Women's health screening
Women's health screening integrated into GFTH medical camps where appropriate.
Menstrual health support is designed to remove a practical barrier to girls' education, dignity and participation.
ACCESS · HEALTH · EQUITYDignity begins with being safe.
Every GFTH activity involving children and adolescents is conducted under our Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy. Protection, consent and privacy are part of programme delivery, not an afterthought.
Girls should be able to learn, participate and speak about health without compromising their privacy or dignity.
Our safeguarding standard
GFTH / PolicyFemale facilitators
Facilitators working directly with girls are female, supporting a safer environment for sensitive health and menstrual health discussions.
Informed consent
Activities involving children and adolescents are conducted with the required school, community and guardian consent.
No identifying health imagery
No photographs of minors are published without written guardian consent, and identifying information is never attached to health-related imagery.
Privacy comes first
Sensitive health information is handled with privacy and is not presented as public programme content.
GFTH activities involving children and adolescents are conducted under our Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy.
A girl's dignity should never be the price of receiving support.
Read the policy