Teen Candle Initiative
Teen Candle Initiative (TCI) is a faith-based non-profit in Wakiso, Uganda, empowering teens, especially girls, through education, advocacy, and support. Founded in 2021, TCI fights period poverty and guides teens’ growth with group storytelling, community engagement, school programs, and providing sanitary products.
Three Focus Areas
Providing reusable pads to fight period poverty, offering period and puberty education to empower teens, and supporting educational opportunities to ensure a brighter future for all.
Reusable Pad Program
We provide reusable pads to combat period poverty, ensuring girls have a safe, cost-effective solution for menstrual management.
Awareness Program
We educate teens on puberty and periods, dispelling myths and providing essential knowledge for their well-being.
Education Program
We support education for all, helping maintain school attendance and promoting better futures for teens.
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Today, on World Health Day, we join the global community in celebrating health as a human right and reaffirm our commitment to ensuring that every individual—regardless of age, gender, location, or economic status—can access the health services they need to thrive.
We recognise that Menstrual health is central to overall well-being. When individuals, especially young people and marginalised communities, have access to Menstrual information and services, they are empowered to make informed choices, live with dignity, and contribute to a healthier, more equitable society.
Let’s continue working together to break down barriers, end stigma, and build an environment where everyone can enjoy the highest attainable standard of health—including sexual and menstrual health ... See MoreSee Less
It's a #NewMonth & with it comes another opportunity for us to continue working towards ensuring that young people have access to sexual reproductive health (SRH) information & services. This supports us in realizing our vision & mission but also create a future of healthy &informed young people, women and the elderly.
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It’s a day to recognize how far we’ve come, how much work there is left to do, and most importantly, how unstoppable we are when we lift each other up. ... See MoreSee Less
"I used to sit on an ash pile during the first heavy flow days then use an old mattress in the next days, Joan narrates" This is a desperate innocent action brought about by scarcity of sanitary products and lack of vital information to manage the red days.
This sad and heartbreaking reality is lives amongst teens in our community going through life and health-threatening conditions and circumstances to manage a normal bodily function while others use dry grass attached to knickers, polythene bags that are unbreathable, and worst of it all putting soil in their nickers during menstruation days.
This is suicidal, the links below will show videos we uncovered with these harsh realities.
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It is March, the women's month and I urge you to support and save the women of tomorrow, we are looking to raise $14,500 to facilitate the buying of sanitary pads and proper hygiene materials for more than 500 teens in three different schools and also provide period education to over 5 other schools
For as low as $20, a teen is assured of sanitary products for a minimum of 2 years (20FOR2), Your support can be sent via the fundraising link in this post or via our website teencandleinitiative.org/donate/ a branded T-shirt will be gifted to anyone (shipping costs on us) who donates $100 and above as a token of appreciation for their generosity and big heart.
To know more about us or for a detailed proposal please visit our website teencandleinitiative.org/ or get in touch with me directly via [email protected]
Your partnership, sharing of this message, or contribution of any amount will make a lasting difference. ... See MoreSee Less
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Together, we can end period poverty through production of free reusable sanitary pads & period/puberty education in schools . Thank you for your support!First time period stories can be many things—exciting for a few but terrifying and awkward for the many, just like Deborah here.
Such experiences confirm our deepest fear of the knowledge gap and the unpreparedness among teens to embrace and handle this normal bodily function with ease and the right way.
On the other hand such engagements reignite our passion and commitment to changing the first-period story for a teen out there through our period education sessions. ... See MoreSee Less
For all the engagements we have had with teens, one thing stands out and is always a topic of the day: the day when they received their first period.
Most describe them as messy days, full of fear, terror, shame, and confusion about what to do next, but on the bright side, these stories unite teens, and they create a bond of sisterhood and togetherness, and at the end of our sharing sessions, it's something to laugh about with a friend who is traumatised by the normal, natural process of growth.
In our next sessions, we will be sharing some of these first-day stories to empower, comfort, and remind teens out there that you're not alone. ... See MoreSee Less
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Educating parents and older adults about periods can help create a community-wide support system. By promoting understanding and empathy, we can foster a culture that values and supports teens of all ages, and backgrounds thus developing healthier relationships with open communication. ... See MoreSee Less