Kenya: Right to Education and Sanitary Towels

One of the main reasons 500,000 girls miss school every four days has been linked to the lack of sanitary towels, but the government has launched a programme to tackle this dilemma.

The government plans to allocate Sh2.6 billion for sanitary towels in the next financial year.

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