POLOKWANE – Jamaima Buys is the Founder of the Share If We Care campaign, with a team of four powerful women.
Joining Jamaima are Nelly Buys, Tebogo Nkoana and Zinhle Mokhisi.
“We all have our own businesses but always manage to find spare time for the campaign, we want to empower girls in schools so that they do not lose their confidence during their monthly menstrual periods,” Jamaima said.
She says the team met through a series of events, driving around the city, and hearing sad stories from girls who cannot attend school due to not being able to afford sanitary pads.
Zinhle’s daughter attends Mapeloana School in Polokwane where most girls are struggling to get sanitary pads. Share If We Care launched their campaign on Friday, 3 March 2017 at Mapeloana School in Ga Mothape.
We are happy to say that we can help so many of the girls in our community who are struggling or who cannot afford sanitary pads.” Jamaima says that their campaign will continue with the donations to girls in schools everywhere.
The Mankweng Police Station, Emergency Medical Services (EMS)Paramedics, Sapa Yopa Motor Cycle Club and employees of the Polokwane Municipality were invited to share their stories with the learners and to also guide them with safety tips in case of emergencies. “We want to make these donations a routine and ongoing process where we will donate with no restrictions.
When sanitary pads are donated at a school, we always make sure that a register is given to the teachers for the girls to sign after receiving a pack of sanitary pads, so that we keep an account of what was given and to make sure everyone receives a pack from the stock,” Jamaima said.
Nelly says some girls had to utilise items of clothing as sanitary towels to make sure they are able to attend classes, which gave the team further reasons why this campaign should be an ongoing project.
What inspired me to join the campaign was because many girls where I came from in Bochum come from poverty, and many of them are orphans, and that is why I want to assist as it makes a huge difference to them,” Tebogo said.
