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Poor girls sell sex to get money for sanitary products

Sylvia from Kibera with her daughter. Teenagers from poor families are forced to sell their bodies for money to buy hygiene products. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

Every dawn a teenage girl wakes up to find her bed wet. It is that time of the month; her period is here.

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