“Every girl, everywhere, deserves equality, opportunity and dignity” – UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres.
The UN, 2025 states that “Adolescent girls have the right to a safe, educated, and healthy life, not only during these critical formative years, but also as they mature into women. If effectively supported during the adolescent years, girls have the potential to change the world – both as the empowered girls of today and as tomorrow’s workers, mothers, entrepreneurs, mentors, household heads, and political leaders.”
For many girls living in rural Kenya, period products, if available, are too expensive meaning that girls drop out of school during their period or even don’t get to finish their education. This means that they are vulnerable to exploitation, abuse and ill-health.
Power Of Pads supports the equality, opportunity, and dignity of women and girls by working through local Kenyan organisations to provide reusable period pads to girls in rural Kenya. Having these pads means they can keep going to school, get an education and are less likely to be exploited and harmed.
Rural women are empowered by working with the local organisations learning how to make the reusable pads. Skills that they can use to set up their own businesses.
Keeping girls and women safe, educated and healthy means that they can reach their potential and contribute to their communities on a local, national and international level.
At Power Of Pads we would like to see a world where no girl or woman is disadvantaged by not having access to sanitary products.
On International Day for the Girl Child and the International Day for Rural Women, if you share our vision to ensure that girls are supported to enjoy good menstrual health, please support our work by donating ……………