Sarah Kuponiyi is a passionate youth leader whose work cuts across gender equality and sexual reproductive health. As a Founder and Executive Director of A Well-Informed Adolescent (AWA) Initiative, she leads the team in creating and managing Safe Spaces that ensure young people can achieve their potential by enabling them access to essential services such as sexual health, mental health building equitable gender norms skills among adolescents.
She recently launched Alora Reusable Pads in her bid to address period poverty and create eco-friendly menstrual hygiene products which her organisation freely distribute to In-school and vulnerable girls and sold at affordable prices to the general public.
According to Sarah; “As a young girl who lived with her father, I could not afford to buy sanitary pads for myself due to how pads were unaffordable for someone like me, nor was I able to ask him for such due to the culture of shyness and silence.
Working on school health outreaches made me realize this situation has not changed and the story is cut across all regions of the country.Alora Reusable Pads was created to solve this problem, and it’s made from specialized fabrics that are comfortable to the skin, hygienic, affordable, easy to use, and available in all sizes with varying thickness to fit every woman at all times.
The reusable pads received special recognition from the Minister for Women Affairs; Dame Pauline Tallen , First Lady of Ekiti State ; Her Excellency Erelu Bisi Fayemi and Cross River State Ministry of Women of Affairs respectively.
