#EmbraceEquity is the campaign slogan for International Women’s Day 2023. Kenya has moved forward in advancing gender equality in recent years with laws on domestic violence, sexual offences, encouraging funding for women led businesses and increasing representation...
World Day of Social Justice 2023 with its central theme of gender discrimination in the world helps to spotlight the link between period poverty and injustice. The charity Power Of Pads is helping to address the pressing issue of period poverty, which affects...
This year the UN International Day of Education is focussing on investing in people, prioritising education. To us at Power Of Pads that is music to our ears as it encapsulates what we are trying to achieve in rural Kenya. By reducing period poverty girls and women...
Human Rights Day celebrates all our absolute rights and freedoms including a right to education, a decent living, health care and a right to live free from any form of discrimination among others. Here at Power Of Pads (POP) we’re aiming to make society fairer for all...
We were thrilled this month to see photos and videos from a second “pad drop” to local schools by our sewing group in Kakamega County. Read on to meet some of the lovely women who are working hard to make and distribute the pads! Asha Mukoya How did you get involved...
