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 It Works
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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.
UNIT OF IMPACT
What Your Gift Can Help Make Possible
MONTHLY GIVING
A recurring gift helps Mayekoo fund menstrual products, reusable pad programs, health education, and the school-based support that keeps girls in class every day of the month.
Become a Monthly Supporter$5 / month
Meet an urgent need
Helps buy and distribute menstrual pads where support is most immediate.
$10 / month
Keep girls supplied
Contributes to the ongoing product distribution that ensures no girl goes without.
$50 / month
Back reusable pad initiatives
Helps support local partners producing and distributing reusable pads for longer-term impact.
$100 / month
Fund menstrual health education
Supports the education, outreach, and school-based programming that reduces stigma and builds confidence.
$150 / month
Strengthen school-based support
Helps improve the facilities and systems — private WASH access, distribution logistics, partner capacity — that make sustained support possible.
$250 / month
Back a complete dignity program
Supports products, reusable pad initiatives, education, and school-based infrastructure working together across multiple schools and communities.
PROOF OF WORK
We show the work. Not just the mission.
Every Mayekoo period poverty project is documented with photos and field reporting from the ground — so donors can see where support was delivered, who received it, and what the distribution looked like in practice. Below is our current field record across five schools in Ghana, spanning four regions of the country.
Before photo
Support in production
Local partners producing reusable pads and preparing practical menstrual health support for girls and young women.
After photo
Support reaching girls
School and community distribution help put menstrual health support into girls’ hands with dignity and care.
Operations snapshot
Period poverty support in action
Map + location details to Support locations
School and community-based support site
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
FAQs
What is period poverty and why does it affect school attendance?
Period poverty is the lack of access to menstrual products, education, and support needed to manage menstruation with dignity. Girls without that support may miss two to three days of school every month — falling behind their peers and in some cases leaving school entirely.
Why support reusable pads rather than just disposable products?
Disposable products run out. Reusable pads provide longer-term support, reduce ongoing costs for families, and allow local partners to build manufacturing and distribution capacity that sustains the program beyond a single donation cycle. Both are part of Mayekoo's approach — because different communities need different solutions.
Where does this work happen?
Mayekoo currently supports girls across five schools in Ghana spanning four regions — Accra, the Eastern Region, Ashanti, and Cape Coast. We are working to expand this support to additional schools and communities.
How will I know my gift reached the girls it was meant for?
Every Mayekoo project is documented with photos and field reporting. We share updates so donors can see distribution happening, products reaching girls, and the schools where support was delivered.
How will donors know their support is helping?
Mayekoo aims to share updates and progress so donors can better understand the impact of their giving.
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.