How Kenya can win the war against period poverty, stigma

Girls in Loreng village in Letea Ward, Turkana West celebrating after receiving sanitary towels from Plan International Kenya during World Menstrual Hygiene Day in Turkana. [Mike Ekutan, Standard]

Whenever Kiambu Woman Representative Anne Wamuratha talks about menstrual health, she always remembers how she first felt when Kiambu Governor Kimani Wamantangi launched sanitary towel drives across the county.

“Why didn’t he call the women? This is women’s business...,” she recalls, adding that other women leaders in the county had the same sentiments.