Each year Lamu Yoga Festival, private donors, and Banana House raise funds for the re-usable sanitation pads. Most of the girls in Lamu district cannot afford buying pads and therefore lack affordable and hygienic menstrual products. With your donation, we can continue to empower girls and ensure good menstrual health.
We appreciate the power of the community that allows the Lamu Yoga Festival to thrive — it would not be a successful project otherwise. That is why we support local initiatives and give back to the beautiful community of Lamu island! Initiatives we have supported are Ubunifu and Shela Bright Girls Secondary school, by offering free yoga classes. In collaboration with PadMad, we also run the re-usable sanitation pads project on the islands of Manda, Lamu and Pate and also on the mainland in Mokowe, Hindi, Mpeketoni, and Witu. Providing girls with sustainable menstrual products helps them stay in school and maintain good menstrual health.
We aim at reaching more than 2,000 girls by December 2024!
Our partnership with PadMad, a social enterprise, started in 2020. Since then, we have managed to support more than 2,000 girls in 2022 with a package of re-usable sanitary pads, to ensure that no girl misses school during her period. PadMad re-usable pads are bio-degradable, sustainable and long-lasting – up to 5 years – and produced locally in Kenya.
Lamu Yoga Community
We believe that yoga should be accessible to everyone, so we are proud to support free community yoga classes. Africa Yoga Project teacher Beldine Anyango teaches yoga to local adults and children in Lamu Town and Shela.
To help sustain the project, the Lamu Yoga Festival contributes 250 KSH from each ticket toward supporting the teacher. With your donation, we hope to fund the initiative throughout the whole year.
You can also leave your mats after the festival, or bring an extra one for young local yogis.
