It has been revealed that polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) is the most common reason for the recent rise in the incidence of infertility cases, particularly in women.

This statistic, combined with the fact that every day there are young girls and women whose periods are irregular but who consider it of no consequence, unaware that maybe, just maybe, a future full of infertility struggles awaits them, inspired Millennium Fellows Precious Sylvanus and Confidence Nmesoma Ubani to create Poly'Girls.

Poly’Girls is a project that seeks to address the issue of ignorance about PCOS, especially among young girls and women between the reproductive ages of 15 and 49, within our local community through intense public education.

This project is mostly directed at young girls in secondary schools, although it would eventually cover a wider range of members of the online community. It's to educate them, to pull the wool over their eyes, and make them sit up and become acutely conscious of their reproductive system.

Project Poly'Girls will organize a mix of online and offline activities during the Millennium Fellowship period (August–November 2022), ranging from online advocacy to webinars to physical outreaches in three selected secondary schools.

Throughout the period of this project, events will include webinars where an invited guest will speak, Q&A sessions, education writings on PCOS shared on the Initiative's social media pages, and tutoring sessions in classrooms. The aim is to reach about 300 people combined across the online and offline events.