“Lack of knowledge about periods can lead to harmful beliefs and discrimination. It can also prevent girls from participating in regular childhood activities. Young girls are denied the opportunity to learn about periods and develop healthy behaviors due to stigma, taboos, and myths. Girls Only, our period and puberty comic book series, was created to make teaching young school girls about periods and puberty free, fun, easy, and comfortable.” Chika continues.

PadHer operates as a non-profit organization and as a social enterprise. As a non-profit, PadHer provides innovative ways to educate young African schoolgirls in underserved communities on periods and puberty while making sanitary pads free and accessible. On the other hand, as a social enterprise, PadHer manufactures and sells high-quality, low-cost reusable sanitary pads and uses the profit made from selling them to help fight period poverty in Africa. For every pad PadHer sells, it donates a free reusable sanitary pad to a young African schoolgirl who can not afford one. PadHer is also making period education inclusive by donating one comic book to a young African schoolgirl in an underserved community for every comic book it sells.

PadHer, whose vision is to “Build An Africa Free Of Period Poverty,” has already published two issues on periods and puberty and has reached over 200 young schoolgirls in Africa with its PadHer Schoolgirl Kit.