CATEGORIES
< 10 Minutes, Creative Activism, Education, Gender Equality, Health
KEYWORDS
Tanzania, Women, Empowerment, Stigma, Discrimination, Justice, Equality, Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Community Organizing, Activism, Resilience, Sub-Saharan Africa
Director: Mark van Luyk, BrandOutLoud
Producer: Judith Madigan, BrandOutLoud
2015 | 6 min
Sub-Saharan Africa
Tanzania
Language: Swahili
Subtitles: English
On any given day millions of girls and women worldwide are menstruating. In Tanzania, 75% of rural schoolgirls never used commercial sanitary pads. This is a striking story of Vanencia, a 14-year-old student. As the leader of the school Health Club she aims to break the silence on menstruation- with success.
