Dignity and education
Help girls stay in school with the dignity and support they deserve
THE PROBLEM
For too many girls, menstruation means missed school, lost confidence, and disrupted futures.
Period poverty is rarely visible. Its consequences are not.
When girls lack access to menstrual products, they improvise with materials that are uncomfortable, unhygienic, or unreliable — or they stay home. A girl who misses two to three days of school every month falls significantly behind her peers over the course of a year. Multiply that across thousands of girls, across hundreds of schools, and the cumulative cost to education, confidence, and long-term opportunity becomes impossible to ignore.
The problem is not just products. It is stigma that makes menstruation something to hide rather than manage. It is schools without private sanitation facilities where girls can change safely. It is the absence of accurate information that leaves girls confused and ashamed about something that is entirely normal. It is a system that was not designed with girls fully in mind.
When girls have access to menstrual health support — products, education, clean facilities, and a community that treats their needs as legitimate — they attend more consistently, participate more confidently, and stay in school longer. The evidence is clear. The solution is practical. The only thing missing is sustained support.
Missed school and disrupted learning
When menstrual support is out of reach, girls may miss class, fall behind, and struggle to stay engaged — through no fault of their own.
Limited menstrual health support
Too many girls still lack access to the products, guidance, and school-based support they need to manage menstruation with dignity.
Stress, shame, and lost confidence
Period poverty creates monthly stress that affects how girls feel about themselves, their bodies, and their place in the classroom.
HOW MAYEKOO RESPONDS
Practical, dignity-centered support that keeps girls in school.
Mayekoo's approach to period poverty is built on one principle: girls deserve to manage menstruation with dignity, without it costing them their education.
We work with vetted local partners across Ghana to fund and help deliver menstrual health solutions that are practical, respectful, and designed to last — not one-time distributions that run out, but programs that build local capacity and sustained support for the girls who need it most.
We don't treat period poverty as a peripheral issue. We treat it as exactly what it is: one of the clearest, most solvable barriers between a girl and her future.
WHAT YOUR DONATION FUNDS
Menstrual product support
We help fund menstrual pads and practical supplies that girls can use immediately — removing the most immediate barrier to school attendance and daily dignity.
Reusable pad initiatives
We support local partners producing and distributing reusable pads — a longer-term solution that reduces dependence on disposable products and builds local manufacturing and distribution capacity at the same time.
Menstrual health education
We help fund education that reduces stigma, builds confidence, and gives girls and young women accurate information about their bodies — so menstruation becomes something to manage, not something to hide.
School-based support tied to attendance and dignity
We support pad access, private WASH facilities, and other school-based improvements that help girls stay present, comfortable, and fully engaged — not just supplied, but genuinely supported.
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ABOUT MAYEKOO
We treat period poverty as seriously as any other barrier to education.
Mayekoo is a U.S. 501(c)(3) public charity working with vetted local partners to fund and help deliver practical, dignity-centered solutions across Africa.
Period poverty work at Mayekoo is not a side program. It sits alongside clean water, education, and coastal restoration as one of our core causes — because we believe that any barrier keeping a child from learning well deserves a serious, sustained response.
We fund products, support local pad production, resource health education, and help improve the school conditions that make it possible for girls to manage menstruation without shame, disruption, or sacrifice.
Every project is reported back with photos and field documentation — so donors always know their support reached the girls it was intended for.
With Mayekoo, your gift supports:
- Menstrual products and reusable pad programs
- Local partner capacity and sustained distribution
- Menstrual health education that reduces stigma
- School-based support tied to attendance, dignity, and confidence
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Periods should never stand between a girl and her future.
Support Mayekoo's work to end period poverty — and help girls across Ghana stay in school with the dignity they deserve.