Sewing Machine Day

Sewing Machine Day

We’ve helped to provide over 13,600 period pads to 2700 girls over the past few years because of an incredible machine and so we’re celebrating #sewingmachineday. Dozens of women in rural Kenya use sewing machines, funded by our generous donors, to make thousands of...
Celebrating Our Volunteers

Celebrating Our Volunteers

Our volunteers give so much to our organisation, without them we wouldn’t be able to do what we do. Thank you to each and every one of you. #VolunteersWeek. We have a small team of volunteers in the UK who run our charity and do everything from finding and supporting...
Menstrual Hygiene Day

Menstrual Hygiene Day

What does a #PeriodFriendlyWorld look like for you? For us at Power Of Pads it is a world where every school girl in rural Kenya has easy access to products and facilities that allow them to manage their period easily and with dignity. We’d like them to grow up...
How We Find Good Project Partners

How We Find Good Project Partners

As you can imagine, our email inbox is often full of requests for help from organisations in Kenya who would like to join our pad project, which wholly depends on working with others there who share our goals. So how do we decide who to work with when we are thousands...
International Toilet Day 2024

International Toilet Day 2024

“Sanitation is a human right which protects everyone’s dignity.  Toilets mean progress and can especially transform the lives of women and girls”.  (United Nations 2024) Many of us reading this won’t think twice about “going to the loo”, as we often say in the UK. We...

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