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Anne remembers when she joined a middle-class girls' secondary school in Nairobi. At only 13, Anne had been admitted to the national school after passing her Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) examination in a rural school nestled deep in the tea bushes of Kiambu.
On the one hand, Anne was excited because she would meet girls from other parts of the country and share her life with them. But Anne was also from a poor background, and could not afford most of the things the other girls had. Like sanitary towels.
And since poverty is shameless, it decided to humiliate her one afternoon during a History class. Anne was on her menses, but did not have sanitary pads. Her only solution was to tear up an old lesso, fold it and wear it as a makeshift pad, hoping and praying that it would not leak.
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