{"id":5560,"date":"2026-02-06T10:06:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T10:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africancotton.naxotech.co.ke\/?p=5560"},"modified":"2026-02-06T10:08:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T10:08:22","slug":"keeping-girls-in-school-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africancotton.naxotech.co.ke\/zh\/2026\/02\/06\/keeping-girls-in-school-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Girls in School"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<span data-contrast=\"auto\">According to the Ministry of Education, approximately\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">2.7 million girls\u00a0in primary and<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">secondary school lack access to sanitary pads, as well as consistent reproductive health education and adequate sanitation facilities. Without access to menstrual hygiene products, a girl can miss:\u00a04 days of school every month,\u00a06 weeks\u00a0of school every\u00a0year\u00a0and\u00a0Up\u00a0to 156 learning days across a four-year secondary cycle.<\/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\">This absenteeism compounds existing inequalities, increases exposure to early marriage and other social risks, and limits future educational and economic opportunities.<\/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>Since\u00a02011,\u00a0African Cotton Industries, in partnership with the\u00a0Ministry of Education, has supported a\u00a0multi-year national initiative\u00a0providing sanitary pads to\u00a0over one million underserved\u00a0schoolgirls\u00a0across Kenya. Through this program, we are helping ensure that girls can remain in school, learn with dignity, and build brighter futures.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2011, African Cotton Industries, in partnership with the Ministry of Education, has supported a multi-year national..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5560","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\/5560","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=5560"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/africancotton.naxotech.co.ke\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5562,"href":"https:\/\/africancotton.naxotech.co.ke\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5560\/revisions\/5562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africancotton.naxotech.co.ke\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africancotton.naxotech.co.ke\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africancotton.naxotech.co.ke\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africancotton.naxotech.co.ke\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}