Period poverty remains a major challenge to the education of girls in low-income settlements in urban and rural areas in Kenya.
Limited access to sanitary products, inadequate information on menstrual hygiene, and cultural stigma cause over one million girls in Kenya to miss three to four days of school every month.
According to data from UNESCO, approximately one in every ten girls in sub-Saharan Africa misses school three to four days every month during their menstrual cycle.
This translates to six weeks of learning time in an academic year.
