Projects
Five programmes, one point
The pads fund the work. These are the programmes that work reaches: free distribution, boys' education, women's livelihoods, and a room with 5,000 girls in it.
Programme 01
Period Access
Free sanitary pads for girls in selected schools and communities.
Period Access exists to make menstrual hygiene and sanitary products reachable for girls and women in schools and communities. Many girls cannot access affordable, hygienic menstrual products at all, which is why the project distributes free sanitary pads to selected schools and communities.
Programme 02
WePower
Helping women facing financial hardship build their own businesses.
Imagine a world where women, especially those facing financial challenges, have the power to build their businesses, support their families and achieve financial independence. WePower exists to make that ordinary rather than exceptional.
Programme 03
Walk In Her Shoes
Bringing boys into the conversation about menstruation.
Walk In Her Shoes tackles the misconceptions about menstruation that circulate among boys in particular. It is a deliberately different approach, built to create empathy and understanding rather than simply correcting facts.
Programme 04
My Body
Training that helps young people understand puberty and their own bodies.
My Body provides comprehensive training on the body and menstrual health, equipping young people with the knowledge and skills to navigate puberty and menstruation confidently, for a positive and informed experience.
Programme 05
The Girls' Challenge
Over 5,000 secondary students a year, in one room, talking openly.
The Girls' Challenge gathers over 5,000 secondary students every year and creates a safe space to discuss their bodies, menstrual health, and reproductive health and hygiene. It goes past education into something rarer: a platform where girls are actually heard.
More from the programmes
Filmed in the communities the programmes reach, straight from the Pad-Up channel.
Community
The same idea, one generation up. Fathers, teachers and community leaders brought into a subject they are usually kept well away from.
Health
Distribution reaches past schools and into clinics and community health settings, where the need is often most immediate.
Support our projects
Every kit sold pays for a kit given away
The commercial range funds the programmes. Buying from Pad-Up, or partnering on a programme directly, is the same act from two ends.
Newsletter
New products, and where the work reaches next.
Occasional email: what has just come off the line, where the programmes are running, and when a size is back in stock.
Sustainability
We recycle 99% of our waste.
The offcuts from every pad never reach a landfill. Through our subsidiary, Kommmb Innovations, they become cushions, furniture and toys — a second life for 99% of what the factory would otherwise throw away.
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