Sanitary Pads For The People
A few years ago Elizabeth Scharpf sprung to action when she learned that women and girls in Rwanda miss work and school because they don’t have affordable sanitary pads. So the Harvard MBA started a business in Rwanda making pads out of the fiber from local banana trees ? and now she’s received the prestigious Curry Stone Design prize for her idea.
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