Centering Women’s Health, Equity & Dignity
Around the world, women—especially in underserved communities—face preventable challenges in accessing healthcare, education, and safety. From menstrual stigma and maternal health crises to gender-based violence and neglected midlife care, systemic inequities put women and girls at risk throughout their lives.
The ValueHer Initiative is U-VOL Foundation’s global response. It’s a woman-centered program advancing gender equity through health education, clinical training, community empowerment, and wellness support—across every stage of life.
From puberty to pregnancy and through menopause, ValueHer supports women with knowledge, compassion, and dignity—restoring health, agency, and voice where it matters most.
How ValueHer Works
- Education on menstrual hygiene, maternal health, mental wellness
- Safe spaces for learning, sharing, and healing
- Upskill midwives and nurses via hybrid learning
- Training in emergency care, mental health, respectful care
- Distribution of midwife kits and POCUS tools
- Address root causes of gender-based health disparities
- Collaborate with local partners and ministries
- Use culturally grounded, community-led models
Embedded in Everything We Do
Women’s health is woven across all U-VOL pillars. Through ValueHer, we deliver holistic, responsive care that reflects women’s unique needs.
A Global, Local
Approach
Ghana
Hybrid tele-education, clinical workshops, respectful care training
Uganda
Menstrual health education, pad-making enterprises, menstrual cups
South Africa
Trauma-informed education on GBV, mental wellness
The HerPad Project:
Dignity in Every Cycle
In partnership with Ujamaa Empowerment Network, the HerPad Project empowers girls and women in Uganda with menstrual health education, hands-on pad-making skills, and long-term solutions like menstrual cups. By providing sustainable, culturally respectful resources, the program breaks period stigma, improves school attendance, and helps women and girls manage their health with dignity and confidence.
Our Impact in Numbers
Our Impact in Numbers
In Her Own Words
The ValueHer Timeline
Support Women. Save Lives.
Your gift provides safe births, menstrual health, and trauma care for women across Africa.
Support Women. Save Lives.
Your gift provides safe births, menstrual health, and trauma care for women across Africa.
Nigeria
Community education, midwife training, resuscitation, POCUS, kit deployment