A simple token now delivers dignity to girls at Bolgatanga Senior High School, as Kodu Technology, in partnership with UNICEF Ghana, inaugurated a Menstrual Pad Bank over the weekend in the Upper East Region.
The installation is part of a broader effort to eliminate period poverty across northern Ghana.
The compact, wall-mounted Banks function mechanically, students insert a small metallic token and receive a sanitary pad, no cash required ensuring discreteness and accessibility. This innovation stems from the UNICEF StartUp Lab collaboration.
Dr. Latifa Mohammed, co-founder of Kodu Technology who led the team to Bolgatanga, emphasized the importance of sustained partnerships: “We’re still in the business of reducing period poverty, one menstrual pad bank at a time.”
She called on organizations, businesses, and NGOs to help introduce more of these dispensers across the five northern regions.
This school launch follows successful deployments at Tamale Senior High School and Business Senior High School in the Northern Region.
Within the last weeks, these campuses were similarly equipped and praised by the student bodies and managemens.
Kodu Technology, a social enterprise that converts banana and plantain stems into eco‑friendly sanitary pads, aims to empower rural girls and support sustainable agriculture.
Founded in Tamale, they have steadily rolled out Menstrual Hygiene Banks in collaboration with UNICEF’s StartUp Lab program.
School staff and students at Bolgatanga SHS extended heartfelt thanks to both Kodu Technology and UNICEF Ghana for the initiative.
