The Government will spend Sh200 million to buy sanitary pads for disadvantaged girls in primary schools in the country in the 2013/2014 financial year.
Education Cabinet Secretary Prof. Jacob Kaimenyi said it has already identified 678,770 (class6-8) vulnerable girls in 9,161 schools drawn from 165 districts to benefit from this.
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