Every girl deserves the right to manage her period with dignity
We are delighted to have partnered up with the charity Positive Life Kenya in order to launch a
brand new initiative to help stamp out Period Poverty.
This partnership will see Winners Studios raise funding to launch a new sustainable initiative providing jobs for women and education to young girls in the most vulnerable areas of Kenya. Below is the story of how this partnership came about, and what we are doing to help an incredible community of women. It really goes to show that when women support women amazing things can really happen. Any donations made through our website will go towards supporting this new initiative.
Our sTory
During a volunteer trip with Positive Life Kenya, our founder Chloe Winstanley spent time within the Mlolongo community, listening to women and girls share their experiences of poverty, inequality and period poverty.
What impacted her most was how much these women shared with the women in our own community — the same love for their families, hopes for the future, ambition, resilience and determination.
Hearing first-hand how period poverty affects education, health, confidence and everyday life inspired Chloe to continue supporting women beyond her time in Kenya.
This experience led to launching a new initiative called Positive Flow Kenya and continuing an ongoing partnership with Positive Life Kenya, helping us extend our mission of empowering women from our local community to women and girls further afield.
Period Poverty
Period poverty is not just about missing products. It is a health, dignity, and human rights issue that affects millions of women and girls every single day.
And for too long it has been ignored.
The Problem
For many women and girls, each menstruation is a monthly crisis.
Period poverty means going without:
- Safe and hygienic menstrual products
- Accurate menstrual health education
- The dignity to manage their period without shame or fear
When girls can’t manage their periods safely, they miss school.
When women can’t afford products, they have to make impossible choices.
And when no one talks about it, the silence makes everything worse.
In many low-income areas, women and girls are forced to use unsafe alternatives such as cloth scraps or go without protection entirely. This often leads to infections, stigma, and missed school or work, reinforcing cycles of poverty and inequality.
Positive flow kenya
While volunteering with Positive Life Kenya in the community of Mlolongo, Chloe began speaking with women and girls in the community – conversations that quickly revealed a deeper issue and she was confronted with a reality many never have to face: girls missing school, women risking their health, and entire communities held back – simply because of a lack of sanitary products and education. This revealed a deeper need – not just for products, but for education, sustainability, and long-term solutions.
Working closely with one of the charity’s head seamstresses, she spent hours researching materials and exploring how reusable sanitary towels could be made locally. Chloe began exploring a new possibility:
What if women in the community could create their own solution?
From this collaboration, a new initiative was born – POSITIVE FLOW KENYA.
Fundraiser
We are delighted to have raised £10,000 to launch our new initiative
our partnership
Positive Life Kenya (PLK)
PLK is a non-profit organization working to break the cycle of poverty.
Founded in 2010 in response to the impact of HIV, poverty and lack of information, PLK was created to restore dignity, build resilience, and create lasting opportunities for children and families.
Their mission is to break the cycle of poverty by promoting active participation of communities through education and advocacy to build a healthy environment for children to thrive and create lasting change.
Positive Life Kenya are committed to the training and development of Positive Flow Kenya whilst ensuring the smooth roll out of this exciting project which we hope will continue to provide income and education for women and children in vulnerable communities.
Learn more about them here: Volunteer in Kenya│Positive Life Kenya
