A Harvard graduate, her work has brought accolades from 85 Broads, her alma matter, Greenwich Academy, and most recently the 2009 prize for best business plan at the Wharton Africa Business forum business plan competition. Read more about her background here and follow her blogs below as she shares what she’s learning on the journey of a global, coordinated, replicable national sanitary pads solution.
Megan White Mukuria bought a one-way ticket in 2001 to come and start businesses for street children, having been invited to help lead the organization she’s volunteered with in 1998. She quickly realized the cost of sanitary pads – to the organizational budget, and to the environment, and to the girls when they lacked pads. Her quest to solve that challenge in a sustainable way led to the creation of ZanaAfrica in 2007, before she’d heard the term “social entrepreneur.” Along the way she became a global leader in the issue of menstruation management, launching the first ever National Sanitary Towels Campaign in 2006 as incoming president of her Rotary Club, and later its Coordinating Committee in 2008.
ZanaA’s New Year’s Plan
January 6, 2009 I am excited at what the immediate future has in store for girls in Kibera and Kawangware, two large informal settlements (aka slums) in Nairobi. Kibera and Kawangware are home to over 2.5 million people – at [...]
My Journey to ZanaAfrica
September 10, 2008 Dear friends, ZanaAfrica, and our sanitary pads project, comes as a result of many years of working with girls in Kenya , seeing problems, and searching for solutions. And it comes from living in Kenya for more [...]
