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Period poverty

Empowerment

Pad The Path - Malawi

Project summary

Pad the Path addresses the deficiency in menstrual health education, and sets out to directly tackle the root cause and provide sustainable, secure solutions to the prevalent period poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa. Ever since its launch in 2019, the project has delivered comprehensive menstrual education and essential sanitary products to over 14 schools across Malawi and over 1,800 young girls.

What the problem was

According to the United Nations Population Fund, period poverty and inadequate menstrual hygiene management severely affect young women worldwide. In resource-poor countries, the lack of education, combined with perpetuated taboos, exacerbates this menstrual and reproductive health crises and endangers women's lives.

What we're doing

Poverty Education Empowerment Environment

Materials

The Pad the Path project has distributed over 1,800 hygiene kits in Malawi, each with 4 reusable pads (18-month lifespan), 2 cotton underwear, soap. To ensure accessibility and cultural sensitivity, participants are provided with a booklet that summarises the workshop content, presented in English and the local language.

Over 500 pad kits were distributed across six different locations in March 2024.

Materials

Over 500 pad kits were distributed across six different locations in March 2024.

Impact so far

We thank you for your generosity. You have helped us and we will be glad if you will help us again because menstruating is now very comfortable and simple then before. We are now going to school not regarding of our condition. To say the truth you have saved lifes of girls who miss classes. We are now free to do our education without any shame.

Young Women Benefitted

Sustainable Kits Distributed

UN Sustainable Development Goals

This project supports the achievement of the following UN Sustainable Development Goals:

Collaborators

Supreme

Supreme is a sustainable social enterprise and charity in based in Malawi. They make reusable sanitary pads and diapers. 100% of profits are reinvested in the business or used to fund its charitable wing, which undertakes extensive work with local schools and other elements of rural society in Northern Malawi, aiming to tackle stigmas and educate on women’s issues.

Blantyre Teachers' Training College

Initiated by the Malawian government, the Blantyre Teachers’ Training Colleges educate the primary school teachers of tomorrow. As one of the oldest colleges, the Blantyre Teachers’ Training College offers an experienced realization of the studies curriculum.