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Meet CNN Hero of the Year: Freweini Mebrahtu!
Freweini designed and patented a reusable menstrual pad in 2005. She and her team produce 750,000 reusable pads a year at her factory in Ethiopia. Nearly 800,000 girls and women have benefited from her work.
More than 80% of the pads she manufactures are sold to non-governmental organizations that distribute them for free.

Mebrahtu has teamed up with the nonprofit, Dignity Period, to end the stigma around the issue by speaking at schools and teaching girls and boys that menstruation is natural, not shameful.
Dignity Period has distributed more than 150,000 free menstrual hygiene kits purchased from Mebrahtu's factory.
Data gathered by the group shows that schools visited by Dignity Period had a 24% increase in attendance among girls.

As the 2019 CNN Hero of the Year, Mebrahtu will receive $100,000 to expand her work. All of the top 10 CNN Heroes for 2019 were honored at Sunday's gala and will receive a $10,000 cash award.
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Ethiopia’s Freweini Mebrahtu

In Ethiopia, where disposable sanitary products are very expensive and often unavailable, nearly 75% of women and girls don’t have access to the menstrual supplies they need.

This causes many girls to miss school, and they are more likely to fall behind in studies and even drop out eventually as a result, denying them many opportunities.
In 2005, Mebrahtu designed and patented a reusable menstrual pad. Three years later, she built the Mariam Seba Sanitary Products Factory.

Today, the factory employs 43 women who produce about 750,000 pads a year. Since 2009, nearly 800,000 women and girls have benefited from her work

At the moment, Mebrahtu sells over 80 per cent of the pads she makes to non-governmental organizations that distribute them for free. One of her goals is to attack the stigma surrounding menstruation by holding talks with students at schools. “I want to see girls in Ethiopia and beyond have access to sanitary pads and not to worry about being ashamed or scared,” she says. “Giving pads to these girls means giving them freedom so that they can achieve whatever they wa

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On this Giving Tuesday, Girls Supporting Girls gives thanks to our generous supporters for all that you've helped us accomplish. We wish you a very happy holiday season. 🚺🚺🚺
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On this Giving Tuesday, Girls Supporting Girls gives thanks to our generous supporters for all that you've helped us accomplish. We wish you a very happy holiday season. 🚺🚺🚺
#girlssupportinggirls
#femaleeducatedenpowered
#agirlcan

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On this Giving Tuesday, Girls Supporting Girls gives thanks to our generous supporters for all that you've helped us accomplish. We wish you a very happy holiday season. 🚺🚺🚺
#girlssupportinggirls
#femaleeducatedenpowered
#agirlcan

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