Modern toilets, free sanitary pads help keep girls in school

Catherine, whose Genesis Care dispensers got patented in 2018, would later realise that she had created a problem through her humanitarian act.

Your country has to be very bad like Kenya. Scratch that. Your country has to be Kenya when things are that bad.

Girls in slums dropping out of school, selling sex in exchange for basic needs

It is very demoralising to see intelligent girls dropping out of school because of their period

Leaders say unlike the involuntary menstruation, use of condom is a choice

High Court orders firm to deposit Sh50 million in a case involving the distribution of sanitary pads bins.

Menstruation means missing school; Chaodza feels too ashamed of her makeshift pad to show her face as she battles days of heavy bleeding.

The average woman has one period a month for four decades.

Young girls in Busia County have turned to selling their bodies for as little as Sh100 for them to buy sanitary towels

<p >A decade ago, after sanitary towels were made more affordable through scrapping of taxes, girls studying in public schools in Kenya have another reason to smile after the government declared that free sanitary towels will be provided, following President Uhuru Kenyatta signing an act, effecting it into law on Wednesday

The Government will now be required to provide every girl enrolled in a public school and has reached puberty with sanitary towels.

Tomorrow, May 28, is Global Menstrual Hygiene Day, hence my focus on this delicate but important issue. This day, celebrated first in 2014, seeks to create awareness on menstruation, break taboos surrounding it and raise awareness on the importance of good menstrual hygiene management worldwide.