Hasten provision of free sanitary towels to school girls

The headlines rang in June last year after President Uhuru Kenyatta assented to the Basic Education (Amendment) Act of 2017. The law reads that the government has to provide “free, sufficient and quality sanitary towels to every girl child registered and enrolled in a public basic education institution who has reached puberty...”

This provision, lauded by campaigners and observers, is a big deal for thousands of Kenyan school going girls, whose futures are at risk because of a natural physiological process of menstruation.