Author: By Sheila Van de Graaph

Girls in Loreng village in Letea Ward, Turkana West celebrating after receiving sanitary towels from Plan International Kenya during World Menstrual Hygiene Day in Turkana. [Mike Ekutan, Standard] Whenever Kiambu Woman Representative Anne Wamuratha talks about menstrual health, she always remembers how she first felt when Kiambu Governor Kimani Wamantangi launched sanitary towel drives across the county. “Why didn’t he call the women? This is women’s business…,” she recalls, adding that other women leaders in the county had the same sentiments. It was only later that she realised that the governor was leading the fight against period stigma from the…

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