The Chiedza Community Welfare Trust, in Zimbabwe's Mutasa District, started sewing cloth sanitary pads when founder Gladys Mukaratirwa realised that local girls were missing school every month because they could not afford disposable hygiene products.A woman works inside a factory at Bonda Women Craft Centre, a reusable sanitary pads manufacturing company in Mutasa district, in Mutare, Zimbabwe, July 13,2022.
The group, run by female volunteers, sells its pads to individuals and to charities across Zimbabwe for distribution to schoolgirls and vulnerable women.Reporting by Tonderai Gonorenda and Sisipho Skweyiya; Writing by Nellie Peyton; Editing by Alison Williams
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