A call for reduction and fixed prices of sanitary towels all over the country.

Have you ever restricted yourself to wearing a maximum of two sanitary towels just because you do not want the only packet you have from running out? Unhygienic right? What about using a tissue or a torn heavy piece of clothing to act a sanitary towel? Now that's even more unhygienic. Some of you will think that way.

This is exactly the case of many girls living in rural areas. While the prices are lowered in the supermarkets in town, they go for almost double the price in local shops in the rural areas. With one packet going for eighty shillings, I cannot imagine what a mother who plucks tea for survival with four daughters all with the same menstrual cycle go through. Four hundred shillings! That is all or even less her daily wages. What about food? We all know that good nutrition is essential during this time to compensate the blood lost.

You may be wondering why girls get married at young ages in the rural areas. We are even quick to judge their parents not putting ourselves in their shoes. They get married early majorly because of poverty. Isn't it better if the responsibility of buying sanitary towels and food for the four sheltered by their husbands? That way, their mother can focus on providing for the younger ones. I said the mother, yes the mother since many men in the rural areas indulge theirs elves in alcohol and neglect the responsibility of providing for their family completely. 

My hope and dream is to own a sanitary towel company in the future where I will sell them at a relatively cheaper and fixed prices all over the country for the sake of girls living in rural areas. But as this is a matter of urgency, I really hope an action will be taken sooner, which is selling sanitary prices at a lowered and fixed price all over the country.

I want to thank world pulse for providing a platform where our needs and thoughts as ladies are put to the table and discussed and solutions provided.