November 2023

At GNWL we believe 1 girl, 1 pencil, 1 menstrual health educator can prevent girls from skipping classes or dropping out of school and help to break the period shaming stigma. Bienvenue Konsimbo is the founder of Girl Now, Woman Later, an organization dedicated to menstrual education. She is combating period poverty in Burkina Faso, […]

Mid-pandemic, amazing things were happening. It suddenly became so much easier to be an activist.  Movements like Me Too and Black Lives Matter thrived during COVID, in part thanks to the availability of social media, and since many of us were isolated at home, we had extra time. Time spent, largely, on platforms like Instagram,