19 MARCH2025W MAN LEADERGLOBAL W MAN LEADERGLOBAL Manufacturing industry. The firm was established with the idea of offering top-grade sanitary pads to lower-income and middle-class women in Africa. Headquartered in Gauteng, the organisation specialises in Manufacturing, and Business development advisory, in addition to training. The firm has provided sanitary pads to 10, 000 girls for an entire year in the year 2022 via African Government's programme entitled `combatting period poverty'. The firm shall soon be South Africa's second-largest sanitary pads manufacturing machine business that has the capacity of 850 units per minute production. ZANAAFRICAMEGAN MUKURIAFounded in 2008, ZanaAfrica is an award-winning hybrid social enterprise with Megan (White) wa Mukuria as the founder and Chief Executive Officer. The firm not only offers sanitary pads but also focuses on menstrual health education for women and girls in East Africa. ZanaAfrica specialises in social enterprise, reproductive health education, sustainability, African history, sanitary pads, policy, feminine hygiene products, and FMCGs while having headquarters in Kenya. Having catered in the Health and Human Services industry, the firm has assisted over 50,000 girls by providing pads for past 10 years. With a mission to provide and aid Kenyan adolescent girls with the required tools to safely navigate puberty.PAD-UP AFRICAASHLEY LORIAshley Lori founded Pad-Up Africa in the year 2017 while having the headquarters in Abuja. The firm is a non-profit organisation that provides free sanitary pads to disadvantaged women in addition to directing them towards good menstrual hygiene management across the African region. Pad-Up Africa also known as Pad-Up Menstrual Sensitization Initiative runs on a mission of sanitary sensitization for women and girls. To date, the firm has reached up to 5000 African females along with donating over 10,000 sanitary pads and organising 5 advocacy and sensitization conferences. The whole organisation runs on one quote `Education for Menstruation'.SANITARY AID INITIATIVEKARO OMUFounded in 2017, the Sanitary Aid Initiative aims at providing low-income families' girls and women with free sanitary pads along with other period products such as soaps, wipes, toilet bags, disinfectant, clean underwear etc. within public schools and Internally Displaced Persons Camps across Africa. This firm is a Non-profit Organization that focuses on Nigerian Girls/women. Karo Omu serves as the founder and Executive Director of the firm who was passionate about impacting and bringing a change in society when she established SAI. Since its establishment, the organisation has distributed its products to more than 20,000 girls across Nigeria.AFRIPADSSOPHIA (KLUMPP) GRINVALDSAFRIpads was co-founded by Sophia (Klumpp) Grinvalds in the year 2010 and she also serves as the firm's director. Having specialities in Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM), Women's Empowerment, Manufacturing, Humanitarian Relief, Menstrual Health, Menstrual Education and Development, the organisation's key focus is to empower women and girls with the knowledge of access, affordability and sustainability during their menstruation. Over the past 14 years, the firm has trained over 4687 people in MHH and worked with more than 200 partners. Additionally, the firm has impacted 5 million women and girls in the year 2022. The firm has introduced reusable sanitary pads in Sub-Saharan Africa and that's what makes it unique in the country. NON-PROFIT ORGANISATION THAT PROVIDES FREE SANITARY PADS TO THE DISADVANTAGED WOMEN IN ADDITION TO DIRECTING THEM TOWARDS GOOD MENSTRUAL HYGIENE MANAGEMENT ACROSS AFRICAN REGION.
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