Reading Time: 4 minutes And in Kenya, over 65% of girls still cannot afford this. Over 37% of the general population lives on less than 134ksh a day ,where is the money for pads for a household of more than just one girl and multiple expenses of the least of which is school fees, food, water, electricity,among others, supposed to come from?
Reading Time: 3 minutes PCOS, Endometriosis, Fibroids, Amenorrhea, Oligomenorrhea, PMS, PMDD. Do these sound familiar to you?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Am close to the end of this article and am thinking, periods are not shameful, it’s the fact that society thinks they are shameful, that is shameful!
Reading Time: 2 minutes Heeey! We are having so much fun with this Month’s theme! We started this month with a discussion of menstrual instruments. We gave you a brief on the evolution of the sanitary pad from that achaic pad made from goat or sheep wool which makes me glad that I was born in this era. While …
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Hellooooo! And welcome to this month’s topic that we are so excited to delve into. Why this topic, you ask. Well, for starters, it’s a taboo topic! And there’s nothing we love more than taboos. Second, the silence around this topic is too loud! Loud as the pain that more than half of the population …
Reading Time: 3 minutes Right from when a woman is 9 to 13 years old, she will experience her first period which will be constant for the rest of her life. Shouldn’t such instances be taken care of by the society and government? I mean, we have free maternity services but lets just be honest, a woman will need that only 1- 3 times in her life, or more if she decides to have more children. But menstruation comes every month, every 3- 7 days and even more for some women, so why aren’t sanitary towels free?