BLOODSISTERS FOR "DER SPIEGEL"

Sanitary napkins are much two expensive for many girls in Africa. What can be done? Out of desperation, many girls, shove rags or cotton in their underpants, or even sand. Anything that is absorbent. But they often don’t have enough confidence in such improvised solutions to go to school for fear that they will spoil their valuable school uniforms or embarrass themselves in front of their classmates. A reportage in Kenya.