The Ubuyantashi Project

07/02/2024

Child marriage persists in Zambia due to poverty, cultural norms, and gender inequality. Poverty drives families to marry off daughters for financial gain, while cultural traditions often pressure girls into early marriage.

The consequences include limited education, health risks, and domestic violence. Efforts to combat child marriage include legal reforms and awareness campaigns, but challenges remain, especially in marginalized communities.

Addressing poverty and gender inequality is crucial to ending child marriage and ensuring a better future for Zambian children.

We follow a 14-year-old Zambian girl through a pre-wedding ritual before she marries a 48-year-old man, and we learn how child marriage threatens the entire ...

29/04/2022

Yesterday we reached out to a Danish sewing group on Facebook asking if we could be that lucky, that maybe someone had some extra sewing machines we could bring to Zambia, as we are expanding the project 🇿🇲

The response was overwhelming, and we are basically sobbing over all these kind people in this world 😭 Today we received two sewing machines, and eight more are coming. It’s incredible what we can happen when we stand together 🧵🪡💃🏻

Thank you Bente for your kind donation! 💖

01/01/2022

Where are we located? For now we are located in the Southern Province of Zambia in Livingstone. Livingstone contains approximately around 134,349 inhabitants. Livingstone attracts plenty of tourists every year because of the mighty Victoria Falls. Livingstone also contains some huge lodges and hotels, and because of that Livingstone is full of contrasts.

Livingstone is surrounded by a lot of suburbs like Highlands, Maramba, Libuyu, Linda, Dambwa Central, Dambwa North and Dambwa Sites. Some of these suburbs got some severe social issues.

Unfortunately a lot of girls in Livingstone are unemployed due to lack of education but also to lack of employment opportunities. This fact often force girls to sell their bodies in exchange for money. This also makes the HIV relatively high in Livingstone and the rate is 31 percent which is highest in Zambia, according to the Central Board of Health.

We believe that no girls should be forced into such kind of a "business", and that's why it is so incredibly important to keep the girls in school, so they get the opportunity to choose for themselves.

📸: This picture is taken in Highlands a few kilometers away from the city centre of Livingstone.

26/12/2021

✨ 2021 is coming to an end, and what a year it has been ✨

2021 has been an eventful year, and both in good and bad ways. It was not as we expected it to be, as it's a strange time we are all living in now due to the worldwide pandemic that is prevailing around the world. Despite the worldwide pandemic it has been the most eventful year for the organization, and we are so excited to see what the coming year holds for us.

This time of the year is also a good time to set some new goals for the coming year 2022. Of course we hope this pandemic will finally come to an end, but we have also sat some goals for the organization.

• We are planning on making an ongoing production menstrual pads.

• We intend to provide at least 5000 girls with menstrual health products.

• The overlooked women are often the women in prison, and therefore we are implementing a new project in 2022 targeting the women in prison in Zambia.

• We also wish to expand our projects to other provinces, and we are especially looking at Lusaka, The Central Province and The Copperbelt.

On that note we are taking a well-deserved Christmas break and will be back in January 2022.

We want to say thank you for all the support we have gotten, and we hope you all are keeping well and safe. Take care of each other and your neighbors, a long lost family member, your close family, friends from near and afar and of course yourself ✨

We wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy new year 🎉

24/11/2021

THANK YOU / TAK TAK TAK ❤️❤️❤️

Today a bunch of menstrual cups from arrived. We are beyond thankful, and we can wait to bring them with us to Zambia in 2022 🤗

A menstrual cup can make a huge impact in a girl’s life in Zambia, and by giving out menstrual cups we can create a positive impact, and make sure no girl has to drop out of school and eventually end up getting forcefully married in a young age.

LET’S MAKE AN END TO PERIOD POVERTY!! ✊🏻✊🏽✊🏾

17/11/2021

Some exciting things are happening in the organization at the moment ✨🤍🤞🏼

17/11/2021

The Ubuyantashi Project x AllMatters (Organicup)

We are so happy to announce we have teamed up with (former Organicup), and we are soon receiving a bunch of menstrual cups from Allmatters ready to be distributed to our girls in Zambia 🇿🇲

Allmatters was founded in Denmark in 2012 with an ambition to grow the category of reusable period products 🇩🇰

For the past 9 years, Allmatters have fought enormous stigma with a menstrual cup and strong community. 

Allmatters proved that periods are a natural part of our lives. Allmatters replaced disposable products that harmed our bodies and our environment with menstrual cups. Allmatters even developed new daily habits.

We would like to thank Allmatters for your support 💚 This opportunity is a huge milestone for us, and we are looking forward to a long lasting partnership 🤍

25/09/2021

To educate and spread knowledge about menstruation is our most important tool in order to fight period stigma🩸🤗

25/09/2021

📸 Another great day at the Ubuyantashi office 🥳

25/09/2021

The price of being a girl in Zambia - A costly choice between managing menstruation and missing school.

When reaching the reproductive age and going to school at the same time, suddenly something so simple becomes a question about getting food on the table - or buying menstrual hygiene products, in order to continue your Education.

If you fail to buy the menstrual hygiene products - you will miss school which most likely will lead to a drop out if you have to miss school months a year due to your monthly period. This is the price a lot of Zambian girls pay when they start having their monthly period, and also want to become educated individuals at the same time.

25/09/2021

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