by Power Of Pads | Jun 19, 2020 | Newsletter
A relatively small amount of money can be life changing in rural Kenya. By donating whatever you can afford, will really help us to provide grants of a few hundred pounds to women to start pad making businesses which in turn will help them to support their families....
by Power Of Pads | Jun 19, 2020 | Newsletter
With the world in the middle of the COVID 19 pandemic it’s difficult to know about all the ways it is affecting girls and women in Kenya. What we can presume is, it will not be making their menstruation experiences or lives any easier. We do have the very latest data...
by Power Of Pads | May 23, 2019 | Newsletter
It is great to go and visit the clinic in Buburi as it reminds us why we became involved in the first place and see for ourselves what a difference it makes to people’s lives. It gives us the opportunity to monitor how our donors’ money is being spent,...
by Power Of Pads | Apr 15, 2019 | Newsletter
We’ve been completely overwhelmed by the amazing results of our sanitary pad project. Here’s what a local Headteacher told us: Absenteeism is down by 40% across the school. It’s a co-ed school, and this figure is due to girls not missing school when they...
by Power Of Pads | Apr 15, 2019 | Newsletter
Charlotte is three years old and was in nursery school when she fell ill and was brought home by other children to her mother Ivyne. She had a fever, convulsions and was vomiting. Her mum started to treat her at home for Malaria but quickly realised that she needed to...
by Power Of Pads | Sep 17, 2018 | Newsletter
Photo of Anne with clinic staff, Eunice, Elijah, Vincent and Edward ‘For every person diagnosed with diabetes in Kenya, two are walking with it’* In June, Anne Wynne, a nurse with a wealth of experience in the diagnosis and management of diabetes, accompanied Sallie...
