Jamila Mayanja

"I always have this question that I always ask people and leaders in Uganda. Why are condoms easily accessible compared to had anything to do with production? Did in that time of the month that you would walk into a restaurant, and these are both of free condoms."

"There is not a booth of reasonable pants or pants in general? Or you would even in primary schools or some government schools, you would say there is a counselor who has sometimes sanitary towels that are available, but all the time they're not available."

"If you cannot tell your menstruation periods, please don't come this month, I'm broke."

"I am not in the mood."

"I'm going to travel or I'm going to a restaurant. And I don't think I will get has their own going to a school. And or I'm feeling or my parents are poor."

"My prayers do not come this time. So I always ask everybody always ask a scholar is as the local community, that way you're making sure that people are not getting having safe sex."

"We are expanding our small bags program in South Africa, and Limpopo. So with called Echo’s foundation there, we plan to have sales there be business to business where they would buy for people don't give out and or business to consumer."

"With each bubble you're selling in South Africa, you're making another that we're going to give out for free in, Uganda."

"I'm at a summit in Ghana, we are also expanding to Ghana, to try and help so many women with us my back to expand us man back to be impactful for young girls in all over Africa. And later on, we're also expanding to Tanzania. So if you're in any of these countries, most of all South Africa or Ghana, and you feel you would love to support or affiliate with us."

"You can always contact me by our pages. For Smart Girls Uganda, and also my personal pages."

"I'm very quick to reply. I'm always on social media, because people."

"I want to unpack that a little bit. So for those of us like myself, who've never been to Uganda, what is it like for the majority of young girls there who are primary school age, high school age? Are they also experiencing some of the same things that you experienced?."

"I was really encouraged to start Smart Girls was the fact that, for me, in going through the bullying."

"Going through menstrual bullying and stigma, I was from a privileged family of sorts. We weren't so poor, but the more I got to find out about the girls that live in Uganda, they were going through even worse situations than I was."

"Can you imagine even 60% of new HIV infections in Uganda are by adolescent girls?"

"We're not doing so much in trying to keep girls in school, in trying to prevent them from getting teenage pregnancies, and having them access friendly reproductive health services."

"Something as simple as a reusable pad is keeping them out of school."

"Something as simple as access to light, to water is keeping them out of school."

"The situation here for girls is a bit alarming."

"Some of us who have been lucky. That's why I ended up setting Smart Girls to try and make sure those were been a lucky a little bit, can give back to the girls were not lucky like us."

"I want to go deeper into this. So there's clearly a problem. And women are young girls need help."