In rural Kenya, 1 in every 10 girls will miss school for 4 days in a month during her menses due to lack of proper sanitary supplies. This totals to 36 days in a 9 month school year. If not missing school, the girl is forced to use inappropriate and unhygienic materials that do not […]
Category: afford sanitary towels
Lewa Wildlife Conservancy Sewing Program
The Lewa Wildlife Conservancy have a sewing program that reccently requested for some assistance with sanitary towels for the girls in the area who were missing school because they lacked. We discussed whether to go with the disposable ones or whether implementation of a reuseable sanitary towel program could be feasible or not. Yes is […]
Getting to know urb.im
We had a recent interview with Katy Fentress the Nairobi Bureau Chief and Community Manager for urb.im urb.im is an online global community that looks to establish an international community of practice and learning, sharing ideas and experiences in order to innovate, replicate, and scale working solutions to the problem of urban poverty. The article is titled […]
What if pads were distributed for free? or were made so affordable such that the girl child does not have to worry about her monthly period?
I feel inspired after reading an article in Kenya’s July 2011 Salon magazine (ok ok hold your horses because it not just about hair, it also features various stories and i was drawn to it because of this particular article) Basically about the singer Size 8 and her growing up from a low income home […]