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Probably the best investment in a country you could ever make: invest in the education of girls. And equally important: keep them in school ones they enrolled. A major problem is the fact that ones a month you need sanitation pads, if you don’t get them cheaply enough you simply miss school a few days a month. This will seriously damage your future perspectives. 

To companies/charities are trying to change it. The video above is of ZanaAfrica a non for profit mostly working in Kenya.

The article below is about an Indian company (founded by a man!). He invented a low cost machine which can make cheap sanitation pads, he sells the machine to local female entrepreneurs which produce (and sell) the pads in their communities. The founder of the company Arunachalam Muruganantham decided to make India a 100% napkin country he even did his own research into the current solutions:

Fashioning his own menstruating uterus by filling a bladder with goat’s blood, Muruganantham went about his life while wearing women’s underwear, occasionally squeezing the contraption to test out his latest iteration. It resulted in endless derision and almost destroyed his family. But no one is laughing at him anymore, as the sanitary napkin-making machine he went on to create is transforming the lives of rural women across India.

What I find most interesting is his business model, instead of building a huge factory in every state and producing the pads himself. He invented a low cost machine to make the pads in the communities, thus creating a lot of local employment. 

(Source: poptech.org)