About us

The Girl Aid Foundation is a non-profit organisation started by Beth Waruguru, a social worker, in 2014, to eradicate period poverty, after becoming aware of period inequality among girls in low-income communities in Nairobi. The Girl Aid Foundation works to fight period poverty, collaborate with schools to provide sex education to girls and teach them about period care. Menstruating teenagers from low-income households are vulnerable to sexual exploitation by men, that’s why the Foundation educates them about their sexual reproductive rights. The objective with such education is to reduce teen pregnancies, reduce the spreading of sexually transmissible diseases like HIV, and facilitate the advancement of women in Kenyan society.

The Girl Aid Foundation also includes boys in sex education and the workshops it conducts, to destigmatise and normalise menstruation. Since men are involved in the sexual exploitation of girls, workshops seek to educate boys regarding the sexual reproductive rights of girls and how it is related to human rights. School uniforms are quite unaffordable, which impacts school absenteeism, a new program of the Girl Aid Foundation offers free school uniforms to underprivileged students. In combination with this, another initiative will be started to provide scholarships to students who do not have the financial resources to pay for additional school fees, so that more students enroll for secondary education.