Sylvia is 14 and dreams of being a journalist and loves to hang out with her girlfriends and play games. Sylvia is one of the many girls who now have access to sanitary pads to help her stay in school.
Sylvia and girls just like her in Kenya are more likely to live out their dreams when they stay in school. However, studies show that over 850,000 Kenyan girls are missing 3.5 million school days each month because they don’t have sanitary pads.
What if girls like Sylvia could access affordable sanitary pads so they wouldn’t have to miss school during their period?
What could something as simple as a sanitary pad help Sylvia accomplish?
By reducing school absenteeism during menstruation, girls:
- Are more likely to graduate from secondary school
- Are more self-confident
- Make better life choices
- Are financially more secure as adults
- Set in motion a virtuous cycle that will lift their family, community and country out of poverty
Learn the facts on how access to sanitary pads can improve Sylvia’s life by downloading the fact sheet, “Girls Education and Sanitary Pads: Improving the Lives of Kenyan Girls” by ZanaAfrica.
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ZanaAfrica is pleased to be a recipient of the Grand Challenges Exploration Grant for Ground-Breaking Research in Global Health and Development to Create the Next Generation of Sanitation Technologies
