Women and Girls

November 20, 2021
PadHer operates as a non-profit organization and as a social enterprise. As a non-profit, PadHer provides innovative ways to educate young African schoolgirls in under-served communities on periods and puberty while making sanitary pads free and accessible.

One Comic Book At a Time, Chika Nwaogu Is On A Mission To Eradicate Period Poverty And Stigma

In a bid to combat this phenomenon, a Nigerian entrepreneur, Chika Nwaogu, co-founder and executive director of PadHer, a Lagos-based women-led nonprofit is making it free, fun, easy, and comfortable teaching young African school girls from under-served communities about periods and puberty using comic books.