A Strategy for Keeping Girls in African Schools

Written by NICHOLAS KRISTOF - International Herald Tribune
Sunday, 28 February 2010
Article Source: International Herald Tribune Last September I posted about the increasingly widespread belief in the global development community that one way to help high school girls in poor countries stay in school is to help them manage menstruation. There’s anecdotal evidence that girls stay home during their periods (because of a lack of hygiene products and underwear, as well as embarrassment, cramps and taboos). Then they get further and further behind and eventually drop out. If that’s true, then interventions to address this would be a cost-effective way of keeping girls in school.

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