Naspers for Good help SOHK fight Period Poverty.

Listening to girls and young women in the SOHK programme, it’s impossible to ignore that many miss school and stay at home because of menstruation. We recognise that a culture of silence around menstruation limits the ability of women and girls to equally participate in society. It undermines their social status and self-esteem. We want to give women the right to go to school, play sport, go to work and participate in life despite not being able to afford sanitary products.

To meet this need SOHK provided, with funding from Naspers for Good, a free-to-user sanitary pad vending machine provided by the amazing social business Menstruation Foundation. In all we have been able to donate 2000 sanitary pads to students at Harold Cressy High school, and in 2022 we hope to increase our provision to 2 new schools.