Eco-Me Africa: Ghanaian Teacher Innovates to Fight 'Period Poverty'
A teacher in a small school situated in the Afari town of Ashanti state of Ghana noticed a problem. Amdiya Abdul Latiff noticed that her female students were regularly absent from class.
She found out that the female students would skip school during their menses due to 'Period Poverty.' Period Poverty is a term commonly associated with a lack of access to sanitary pads or cleaning products that pushes young girls to miss school during their menses.
Abdul Latiff founded Eco-Me Africa, a reusable sanitary pad production facility, to offer her students the products for free. She believes it is important that the products are easy to clean and environmentally friendly.
A UN report in 2020 estimated that one in ten girls in Sub-Saharan Africa miss school miss during their menses or eventually drop out altogether.
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