Kenyan schoolgirl takes her own life after 'period shaming'
The girl's mother said a teacher had called her"dirty" for soiling her uniform and ordered her to leave the class in Kabiangek, west of the capital Nairobi, last Friday.
She said her daughter came home and told her mother what had happened, but then when she went to fetch water she took her own life.A donated menstrual cup could last a woman in poverty ten years - so why is Ebby Weyime facing some resistance?Media playback is unsupported on your deviceTogether with other parents they staged a protest outside the school on Tuesday. Police moved in and made five arrests when the demonstrators blocked a road and pulled down the school gate, reports said.
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