Help train women in Eastern Kenya on Home-made sanitary pads

About 65% of women and girls in Kenya cannot afford sanitary pads. Evidence suggests that the period around puberty is one in which many girls drop out of school or are absent from school for significant periods of time. Over 850,000 girls miss 6 weeks of school every year and women miss valuable work hours. Menstruation causes Kenyan adolescent girls to lose an average of 3.5 million learning days per month. Limited access to safe, affordable, convenient and appropriate methods for dealing with menstruation has far reaching implications for the rights, physical, social and mental well-being of many adolescent girls in Kenya and other developing countries as well.
The main problems faced by women and girls are:
• The expense of commercial sanitary pads;
• absenteeism where girls stay at home rather than attending school when menstruating;
• unhygienic ways to dry menstrual materials;
• inadequate waste disposal facilities;
• lack of privacy for changing menstrual materials;
• leakage from poor-quality protection materials;
• the lack of resources for washing such as soap;
• limited education about the facts of menstruation;
• limited access to counseling and guidance;
• fear caused by cultural myths;
• embarrassment and low self-esteem;
• and the unsupportive attitudes of some men.

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