{"id":5174,"date":"2026-02-04T20:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T20:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africancotton.naxotech.co.ke\/?p=5174"},"modified":"2026-02-06T10:02:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T10:02:44","slug":"empowering-the-girl-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africancotton.naxotech.co.ke\/zh\/2026\/02\/04\/empowering-the-girl-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Menstrual Health Programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<span data-contrast=\"auto\">African Cotton Industries, in partnership with\u00a0<\/span>Girl Child Network (GCN)<span data-contrast=\"auto\">, has implemented large-scale menstrual health programs that combine product access, education, and community engagement to support girls\u2019 wellbeing and school participation.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Our initiatives focus on creating sustainable impact through:<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Distribution of sanitary pads<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0to primary schools and special-needs institutions<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Menstrual health awareness and reproductive health education<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0for students and communities<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Nationwide program implementation<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0designed for long-term scalability and continuity<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Long-term impact:<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0Strengthening menstrual dignity supports consistent school attendance, improves confidence among young learners, and contributes to\u00a0<\/span>SDG 4 (Quality Education)\u00a0and\u00a0SDG 5 (Gender Equality)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>African Cotton, in partnership with the Ministry of Education and Girl Child Network (GCN)&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-responsibility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africancotton.naxotech.co.ke\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africancotton.naxotech.co.ke\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africancotton.naxotech.co.ke\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africancotton.naxotech.co.ke\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africancotton.naxotech.co.ke\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5174"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/africancotton.naxotech.co.ke\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5549,"href":"https:\/\/africancotton.naxotech.co.ke\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5174\/revisions\/5549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africancotton.naxotech.co.ke\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africancotton.naxotech.co.ke\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africancotton.naxotech.co.ke\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africancotton.naxotech.co.ke\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}