Empower Women in Africa

In 2012, 1.4 billion people, or 20% of the world’s population, survive on less than $1.50 per day. That money gets stretched among entire families for a day’s worth of food. This means that girls will be unable to buy sanitary products when they’re menstruating and must resort to using old rags, toilet paper, newspaper, ash, mud and even cow dung. They will skip school to avoid embarrassing leaks and stains in public and remain at home for up to a week each month. In an effort to curb this gap in education, Empower Women in Africa offers scholarships to cover the educational costs of girls living in abject poverty, donates handmade cloth menstrual pads to girls in rural Africa and works with women in areas we donate to make the pads locally.