Dominase

The work to help teenage girls miss fewer school lessons because of their menstrual periods has already been expanded to five schools in the Dominase area – with two more due to join in September 2026.

Many girls cannot access or afford expensive products and this can lead to them missing one week in every four of their teenage school career.

Missing a quarter of their time at school can have a major impact on their educational attainment, confidence and self-esteem and so Buriton’s charity link is trying to help.

An opportunity to dust off your dancing shoes and blow away those January blues with live music from the Polecat Alley Ceilidh Band. 

As anticipated,all the tickets sold out quickly – with all the proceeds (and any  other kind donations) going to the village’s projects in our sister community of Dominase in rural Ghana. 

One of our best contacts in Dominase, Nurse Mavis from the SDA Clinic, was invited to speak at a special event on 27^th May as part of the country’s Menstrual Hygiene Celebration Week. She gave a talk alongside other experts to a large gathering of school students (both girls and boys) and explained Buriton’s locally-made, washable pads project. 

Buriton’s Village to Village group funded another careers advice day in March for about 350 schoolchildren in its sister community of Dominase in Ghana.

The youngsters heard from a range of speakers including a bank manager, a lawyer, a nurse, a teacher and an engineer.

The annual event aims to help the teenagers decide subjects for the next stage of their education which can be important in their future career prospects.

Buriton’s ‘Village-to-Village’ group commenced this annual initiative in 2014 and, as well as paying for all the transport to bring children from the outlying schools (and for refreshments during the day), the small charity pays for prizes and awards.

All the children who took part (one from each age-group class in each school) were given an exercise book to reward them for taking part with bigger prizes (school bags, rulers, pencils, erasers and pens) for the twelve pupils who emerged in the first and second positions for each class: P1 to P6.

The work to help teenage girls miss fewer school lessons because of their menstrual periods is progressing well at the two schools where it is being trialled.

Many girls cannot access or afford expensive products and this can lead to them missing one week in every four of their teenage school career.

Missing a quarter of their time at school can have a major impact on their educational attainment, confidence and self-esteem and so Buriton’s charity link is trying to help.

Are you nifty with a needle, talented with thread or super at sewing?

If so, then you are just the person Buriton Village to Village Group (V2V) needs.

The group is currently setting up a project to help teenage girls in the village’s sister community in Dominase, Ghana, make their own relatively cheap, simple, sustainable period products.

Many of the girls can’t afford the products which can lead them to miss one week in every four at school.

2023 was another productive year in Buriton’s sister community of Dominase, thanks to money raised through generous donations, legacy bequests and other fund-raising activities.

Scores of teenage girls in Buriron’s sister community of Dominase in rural Ghana miss many of their school lessons because of their menstrual periods.

To help with this big problem, Buriton’s Village-to-Village Group has commenced a trial at two secondary schools involving about 30 girls.

Many girls in rural Ghana cannot access or afford expensive products and this can lead to them missing one week in every four of their teenage school career.

All tickets have now been sold for this opportunity to dust off your dancing shoes and blow away those January blues with one of Buriton’s big barn dances (7pm to 11pm). 

Live music from the popular Rampagers and a cash bar. 

All proceeds go to Buriton’s “Village-to-Village” charity. 

As anticipated, at only £10 per ticket it’s sold out quite quickly.