Through World Vision’s partnership with Sesame Workshop, the WASH UP! Girl Talk program empowers pre-adolescent and adolescent girls and boys (ages 9-14) to practice and promote healthy water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) behaviors, particularly around menstrual health and hygiene. The program builds on the strong foundation of WASH UP!, which is a child-focused, play-based hygiene behavior change curriculum, targeting children ages 5-9. The groundbreaking WASH UP! Girl Talk initiative creates environments that demystify periods and help keep girls in school. Designed for both girls and boys, it provides an interactive and fun educational experience focusing on puberty, health, menstrual health and hygiene, and girls’ empowerment. Engaging boys is critical in building comprehensive and accurate knowledge, as well as fostering healthy and supportive relationships between boys and girls. World Vision’s role is to ensure the schools have appropriate infrastructure for girls to practice healthy menstrual hygiene, as well as to support program continuity, monitoring, and scale-up.
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