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Government plans to include sanitary pads in JSS levels

Nyabikondo Primary School pupils in Kitutu Chache North Kisii County display free sanitary pads they received from Joshua Nyarenchi foundation on June 14, 2023. [Sammy Omingo, Standard]

The girl child in junior and senior schools will have a reason to smile if the government adopts a proposal to include them in the sanitary pads programme.

This is because the current arrangement largely focuses on a fraction of female learners from low-income households.

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