Every new school term in Kenya, the conversation about period poverty re-emerges, focusing on girls who miss class due to the lack of menstrual products.
The most affected are learners from rural and marginalised areas, and urban slums.
While this conversation is important, it tends to ignore the fact that period poverty - being unable to work or attend school because of lack of funds for sanitary products - is not just an education issue; it is a multi-dimensional crisis that affects health, human rights, and economic development.
For thousands of marginalised women across Kenya, it means enduring public shame, infections, or reliance on harmful, makeshift solutions.
