Wise Girls - Niñas Sabias promotes a model that weaves together education, empowerment, and entrepreneurship through menstrual education programs and fertility awareness, training for teachers to educate with an intercultural perspective on menstruation, and women's entrepreneurship to benefit girls and families.
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Wise Girls - Niñas Sabias promotes a model that weaves together education, empowerment, and entrepreneurship through:
Menstrual education programs and fertility awareness for girls and adolescents who are starting and going through puberty, ensuring access to reusable menstrual management products that promote their health, self-efficacy, and menstrual sovereignty.
Training for teachers to educate with an intercultural perspective on menstruation, cycles, self-awareness, and self-care, especially in indigenous territories and disadvantaged environments.
Women's entrepreneurship to benefit girls and families through the production of Niñas Sabias kits as a tool for ecological menstrual management that saves money, protects the environment, and strengthens local economies.
Costa Rican girls face silence, violence, and discrimination due to menstrual taboos and poverty, negatively affecting their health, self-esteem, and opportunities. Niñas Sabias addresses the undeniable need for menstrual education and advocates for equality throughout the menstrual cycle for all girls.
With the vision of ensuring that all girls are Healthy, Safe, and Wise, we empower them to participate fully in school and life.
Through our educational programs, the distribution of reusable and locally made menstrual kits, and advocacy initiatives, Niñas Sabias Costa Rica strives to eradicate menstrual stigma and poverty while fostering a supportive environment for girls to thrive and achieve their dreams.
Learn more about the Menstrual Education Program of Niñas Sabias (justification, objectives, content, and impact measurement tools): Visit our Website»
In partnership with the Asociación Voces Nuestras, Niñas Sabias Costa Rica is committed to ensuring continuous menstrual health and education programs in schools and for girls in marginalized urban, rural, and indigenous communities.
To provide dignified and healthy menstrual management kits through the Niñas Sabias Costa Rica programs, we work in alliance with Incâ (which means menstruation in the Brunca language), a sewing enterprise run by women from Curré.
- In Mexico, over 6,000 girls have benefited from the Niñas Sabias Workshops offered in more than 140 schools and community centers.
- Thanks to Amigos de Costa Rica and collaborators, 15 indigenous women in Costa Rica were trained as menstrual educators in 2022.
- Since 2023, 15 certified Niñas Sabias teachers are continuously trained to teach the program in schools across the country and act as active advocates for menstrual health for girls.
- Through the Healthy, Safe, and Wise Girls, free from violence and discrimination project, funded by Mujeres del Sur, strategies for communication and advocacy for girls' rights are being developed in 2024, along with 15 Niñas Sabias Workshops in indigenous territories and other rural areas of the Greater Metropolitan Area (GAM).
- Through these actions, 300 girls in Costa Rica will be empowered with education and sustainable menstrual kits this year.
Learn more about this project [Watch Video]»
With your help, we can reach more girls where our certified Niñas Sabias teachers are located:
- Alajuela, San José, Tortuguero, Guanacaste, Heredia, and Puntarenas
- Indigenous territories in the South of Costa Rica, where certified teachers are located
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