State should waive taxes on sanitary pads

In many places in Kenya, communities continue to downgrade the multiplier effect of educating girls, with as many as one in 10 adolescent girls missing school and eventually dropping out due to menstruation-related issues.

Figures from Kenya’s Ministry of Education show that a girl in primary school loses 18 learning weeks out of 108 weeks in a year during her menses. Within four years of high school, the same girl loses 156 learning days, equivalent to almost 24 weeks of learning.