Giving Back

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! The ini­tia­tives we have sup­port­ed are Ubuni­fu and Shela Bright Girls Sec­ondary school, by offer­ing them free yoga class­es and we run togeth­er with Pad­Mad, the re-usable san­i­ta­tion pads project on the entire islands of Man­da, Lamu and Pate and also on the main­land Mokowe, Hin­di, Mpeke­toni and Witu.

Each year Lamu Yoga Fes­ti­val, pri­vate donors, and Banana House raise funds for the re-usable san­i­ta­tion pads, as most of the girls in Lamu dis­trict, can­not afford buy­ing pads and there­fore lack afford­able and hygien­ic men­stru­al prod­ucts.  Since 2020 we part­nered with Pad­Mad Social Enter­prise and we man­aged to sup­port more than 2000 girls in 2022 with a pack­age of Reusable san­i­tary pads, to ensure that no girl miss­es school dur­ing her peri­od. Pad­Mad Reusable pads are biodegrad­able, sus­tain­able and long-last­ing – up to 5 years – and pro­duced local­ly in Kenya.

This year, we aim on reach­ing out again to more than 2,000 girls by Decem­ber 2023.