KUALA LUMPUR: Kotex Malaysia is donating 600,000 sanitary pad kits over a period of three years until 2026 to benefit female students in 1,080 schools nationwide.
"These kits will be given to schools nationwide, and so far 98,000 teenage girls have received these donations; we are aiming for 200,000 people to receive this benefit by the end of this year," he said at a press conference in conjunction with the launch of the programme at the International Youth Centre in Cheras here Thursday .
A total of 500 students from 10 schools in the Bandar Tun Razak parliamentary constituency attended the event too. "Kotex Malaysia has produced two videos on menstrual education and SRH to be shown at schools. We have held discussions with medical experts, educators and women NGO workers on the content of both these educational videos to ensure they are of good quality as well as appropriate for Malaysian society,” he also said.