Kenya Network of Women and Girls with Disabilities

Menstrual Hygiene Day is an Annual Awareness Day marked on May 28 each year. In this article Network Members, Angeline Akai (Kenya Society for the Blind) and Elizabeth Mang’eni (You4She Initiative) talk about the need for conversations on menstrual health and hygiene to include girls and women with disabilities.   Barriers that hinder access to menstrual health and hygiene for women and girls with disabilities must be eliminated,’ they note. Read on…………….. The theme of menstrual hygiene day 2022 is making menstruation a normal fact of life by 2030. The overarching goal is to build a world where no one is held back because they menstruate. This is the day to highlight the importance of menstrual care and raise awareness about the issues women and girls face in accessing menstrual health products such as sanitary pads, tampons, and menstrual cups .                                 Image Description:  Menstrual hygiene awareness among women and girls with disabilities in Busia County  

We are the Kenya Network of Women and Girls with Disabilities We are a loose group that brings together organizations and experts working on the rights of women and girls with disabilities in Kenya.  We came to be, because of a gap that we noticed. Our issues falling within the cracks of both the women’s rights and disability rights movements. As a result, the issues of women and girls with disabilities  often get left out on many discussions on human rights.  We work, in our different spaces as women leaders with diverse disabilities , to amplify the voices of women and girls with disabilities at the national, regional and international level to ensure that we participate in all spaces and our concerns are included and addressed in discussions on women’s rights and disability rights. Our conviction is that there cannot be anything about women and girls with disabilities that does not have women and girls with disabilities  in the lead. This blog will be highlighting various experience