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.
Impact Model
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.
40
Years of
Foundation
10000
s+of lives
impacted
500
+successful
outreaches
how we help
What Teens Ask?
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