If you had no idea what you were looking at the first time you ever saw a period product, then you will relate on an emotional level to this eight-year-old girl very confused by a menstrual pad. While ...

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While I was in Nairobi a couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to visit the Huru International center in Mukuru, one of the city's biggest slums, home to an estimated 600,000 people. In Mukuru, a ...