About twenty percent of girls and young women miss school worldwide due to a lack of sanitary products and misinformation about their menstrual hygiene (Lusk-Stover et al., 2016).

UNESCO reports that approximately one in ten girls in Sub-Saharan Africa are absent from school during their menstrual cycle.

The CGSPP intervention helps lessen the number of girls and young women missing school or suffering due to a lack of sanitary pads especially in Africa. The program’s objective is to produce and distribute reusable sanitary pads to girls, mainly in rural areas who are poverty struck and cannot afford to buy them. Similarly. The project seeks to influence, facilitate and attract female entrepreneurs producing reusable sanitary in Africa to come and, in unison, help reduce the number of girls being absent in school due to lack of sanitary pads. While utilizing funds from various international organizations, the project also wishes to offer training and awareness to participating individuals, who will, in turn, re-disseminated the information to others, and as a result, reach out to more girls in Africa.

The project’s mission is to facilitate sanitary pads and awareness about menstrual hygiene to schoolgirls who are poverty struck. The project’s provision of reusable pads contributes to achieving various sustainable development goals (SDGs). For instance, the project will foster the achievement of quality education (SDG4), hygiene and sanitation and clean water (SDG6), and gender equality (SDG5) (Lusk-Stover et al., 2016). Subsequently, reusable sanitary pads are a sustainable approach to ensuring girls manage their menstrual cycle because they can use them for an extended period before they wear out. Lastly, the project wishes to ease the availability and accessibility of period products such as sanitary pads by providing affordable pads to girls and rural communities.