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Book for schoolgirls on monthly cycle out

At least six in every ten girls miss school because they cannot afford sanitary towels. The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund estimates that an average girl loses more than a month of classes in the school year because of menstruation-related reasons.

These are the unsettling statistics that have made the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development step in with a manual to help adolescent school girls understand their sexuality.

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