The World Bank estimates 20% the education of a girl living in the developing world is missed because of their periods. In Kenya alone, annually about 100 million working days are lost due to women staying at home during their period.
In many of the communities in which partners operate families are living on US$1-2 per day, yet each month girls and women need to find a solution. While conducting pilot workshops we’ve been confronted with cringe worthy accounts of what they resorted to during their periods.
- Girls would stay home from school
- Teenagers often engaged in transactional sex with older men to get the money they needed to purchase pads
- Income earning women would skip work for fear of an accident
- Others would find use whatever they could find, mattress filling, leaves, tissue, old cloth, anything that could absorb the flow
Our goal is not only to provide each pilot country with at least 4,000 donated WonderCups but also to create a WonderCup salesforce of women who will sell the cups at a fair market rate ~$4.00 and earn a commission for their efforts. With your support, we can scale the pilot programs, work with additional organizations and reach more women. Moreover, in each country, we are supporting women’s entrepreneurship locally packaging and manufacturing the reusable bags.
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We are excited to spread awareness and introduce the WonderCup to women worldwide. The WonderCup offers the perfect solution for women wishing to save money, be healthier, reduce her carbon footprint or be free from the hassles of pads and tampons. We know this product has the potential to change hundreds of millions of women’s lives for the better. The time has come to break the stigma and taboos surrounding menstruation and we are on the frontlines. For every WonderCup or Miracle Cup we sell online we will donate ten to one of our partner organizations in developing nations.
–Volker Bassen, Founder of WonderCup
