Submitted
2023 Solv[ED] Youth Innovation Challenge

Solving sex for the pads

Team Leader
Shamim Wakhusama
Solution Overview & Team Lead Details
Solution name.
Solving sex for the pads
Provide a one-line summary of your solution.

I make reusable sanitary pads to give adolescent girls to eliminate the word "sex for the pads"

What specific problem are you trying to solve?

Am eliminating early pregnancy and early marriages so that to reduce poverty in the community

What is your solution?

Am a business woman i use my profit to buy materials for reusable sanitary pads then I mobilize my girls and we teach each other to make the meaning as we teach hundred girls each girl teach other hundred making the community to have knowledge about it 

Who does your solution serve? In what ways will the solution impact their lives?

The girl child by supporting her education by condemning the act sex for the pads 

How are you and your team well-positioned to deliver this solution?

We are unique as compared to the government as it uses the normal pads and and just deliver in schools without training the teachers on how to handle these girls as per my team the first thing we train all the teachers and girls themselves so that teachers should be friendly to them as per government teachers somes they have their own attitudes then the girls are scared to approach them to borrow pads,she end up being absent 

What steps have you taken to understand the needs of the population you want to serve?

I have tried to engage some organization but they have no interest about it hence am just struggling on my own 

Which aspects of the Challenge does your solution most closely address?
  • Improving learning opportunities and outcomes for learners across their lifetimes, from early childhood on (Learning)
What is your solution’s stage of development?
  • Prototype: A venture or organization building and testing its product, service, or business model
In what city, town, or region is your solution team located?
Kakamega county and busia county matungu constituency
Who is the Team Lead for your solution?
My self and my mentor
Solution Team:
Shamim  Wakhusama
Shamim Wakhusama