The Children's Movement has added to its solidarity work by providing more than just dignity kits to the girl child but also other necessities that most lack.

The movement held an official launch and handover of sanitary hygiene kits in Keetmanshoop on Saturday.

The Children's Movement is a youth-led organization that seeks to empower, educate, and mold young people.

Following her participation in the 5th Women's Conference in Berlin in the 1990s, one of Namibia's most renowned educators, the now-late Otillie Abrahams, started the movement.

Its principles are to instill self-respect, care for the environment, critical thinking, and participation in democracy, as well as being self-sustaining.

The movement was initially called the Girl Child Movement, but the need to accommodate the boy child necessitated a name change to the Children's Movement.

The boys benefit from training and skills in various areas, including how to make sanitary towels for the girls and in identifying the movement's target.

Thus far, the movement has donated more than 1,200 self-made pads countrywide, making it more of a solidarity organization as opposed to a charity one.

The official launch of the movement at Keetmanshoop saw the handover of hygiene kits to four high schools and community members present, with the help of Project Never Walk Alone, the Keetmanshoop Municipality, and the Youth Center.

All interested parties are encouraged to participate in the production of sanitary towels for underprivileged girls or to provide the movement with the materials and logistics required to reach out to every girl child in need in the country.

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