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ZanaAfrica creates opportunity for education and financial freedom for Kenyan girls and women through health education, empowerment, and delivery of sanitary pads.

Currently, more than 800,000 girls in Kenya miss six weeks of school per year because they do not have access to sanitary pads or accurate reproductive health education. With these gaps in their formal education, girls are more likely to drop out of school and repeat cycles of poverty.

But there is hope! Academic studies in Ghana and Kenya suggest that provision of pads plus health education wins back these six weeks of school.

Over the past four years, ZanaAfrica has been empowering girls in Kibera slum by delivering pads and reproductive health education to over 1,000 girls. Through our programs, girls have demonstrated significantly improved self-esteem and self-respect, and better academic performance.

By delivering pads along with health education, ZanaAfrica gives girls the opportunity to pursue their dreams.

By manufacturing affordable, eco-friendly pads, ZanaA is building financial sustainability and community resilience.

Our more purely non-profit work, to be funded by pad manufacturing, will provide technology-driven health education and community empowerment to tens of millions of girls by 2015.