Education and role of sanitary pads.

A Kenyan company Pad Heaven, which makes low-cost sanitary pads using the fibres and stems of banana plants. “Their technology converts the plant pulps to make pads that are hygienic, affordable and 95% bio-degradable. Describing itself as “keeping girls in class one pad at a time,” PadHeaven’s Florence Kamaitha says over 900,000 girls in Kenya miss up to four days a month from school due to lack of access to affordable sanitary pads. “We are changing that through our re-usable sanitary pads which we produce with the help of the inmates at Langata women’s prison.” The company came second place at the GIST (Global Innovation through Science and Technology) a major science and technology boot camp in Johannesburg, South Africa. The event was organized for 80 “young and innovative entrepreneurs” by the US Department of State , Venture Well, the Climate Innovation Center, and South Africa’s The Innovation Hub. The pad heaven initiative is