By Lorna Macleod | Executive Director
Behind every distribution is a dedicated Huru team whose care, experience, and commitment make this work possible each day. This summer, Huru is undertaking one of the largest coordinated distribution efforts in our history.
Since May, our team in Kenya has been working across schools and communities with the goal of reaching 30,000 girls with Huru Kits, menstrual health education, and the support they need to remain fully engaged in school.
The number is significant. Behind it are thousands of individual girls, each with her own responsibilities, ambitions, challenges, and hopes for the future.
Before a Huru Kit reaches a girl, a great deal has already happened.
Every step is designed to ensure that when a girl receives her Huru Kit, she also receives the knowledge, encouragement, and support to use it with confidence.
Our team works closely with schools to assess need, identify the girls who require support most, confirm distribution plans, coordinate travel, and prepare Kits and practical menstrual health education that will last. This work is careful, detailed, and deeply local.
The barriers girls face are not the same everywhere.
In remote rural communities, girls may walk long distances to school and even farther to collect water. In informal settlements, crowded living conditions and limited household income make reliable menstrual products difficult to obtain. In refugee-hosting communities, displacement and stretched services place additional pressure on girls and their families.
In other areas, the challenge is shaped by beliefs and expectations surrounding puberty. Menstruation may still be discussed quietly, if at all. The onset of a girl’s period can bring new household responsibilities, pressure to assume an adult role, or decisions that place her education at risk.
Huru’s work must respond to each of these realities with care and respect.
In recent weeks, our teams have traveled across multiple counties, from densely populated towns to schools reached only by difficult, unpaved roads. They have worked with teachers, school leaders, local partners, and families to ensure that girls receive more than menstrual products. They receive clear information, practical guidance, and support within the school community.
What moves me most is the thoughtfulness behind every distribution.
Our staff listen to girls, answer their questions, train teachers, include boys in age-appropriate education, and help schools create stronger systems of support.
A distribution day may be the most visible moment, but it is only one part of the work. Behind every distribution is a dedicated Huru team whose care, experience, and commitment make this work possible.
Our goal is to reach 30,000 girls this summer. But as it has been since Huru began nearly two decades ago, our work always begins with one girl, one conversation, and one opportunity to change the course of her future.
As you read this, teams are already traveling between schools, preparing Kits, and supporting girls who need us most.
We look forward to sharing this journey with you.
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