TAG Initiative session
our beginnings

From a community need to a lasting solution.

TAG-I (The Ambitious Girl Initiative) started in Cheramei, Turbo Sub-County, out of a simple, urgent need: access to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) for adolescent girls and young women in the rural areas of Uasin Gishu County.

Working with public-health practitioners, community health workers and like-minded volunteers, we run education and sensitisation sessions, advocate in schools and villages, and link girls’ health today to their education and careers tomorrow. A healthy, dignified girl can stay in school, complete it, and choose a future of her own.

When girls kept asking for reusable pads — even after receiving disposables — we knew we had to build something more sustainable. That became Tagi Social Enterprise.

what drives us

Health, dignity & opportunity

Dignity

Every girl deserves to manage her period safely and with confidence — never shame, never fear, never “pads for sex.”

Education

Periods should never keep a girl out of class. We pair products with frank, practical menstrual-health and SRHR education.

Opportunity

We create real livelihoods — training and employing young mothers so they can rebuild their futures.

the gap

Why this work matters.

There’s a huge shortage of menstrual products in rural communities and informal settlements. Some girls skip school during their period; others drop out entirely. The lack of pads brings stigma and shame — and pushes some girls toward older men, including boda-boda riders and long-distance drivers, who “offer” support in exchange for sex.

Government provides pads for girls in public schools, but the support is inconsistent and inadequate. We exist to close that gap, sustainably.

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Founder Lucy
— Lucy, founder
the founder
“I’d seen the challenge first-hand. I knew we needed something that lasts.”

Lucy is a public-health practitioner and a Rotarian. In 2022 she took part in the Mandela Washington Fellowship, a U.S. government programme for young African leaders, and shared her work with the Boone Sunrise Rotary Club in North Carolina.

Back home, she kept pursuing a way to make TAG-I sustainable. After several pitches, the Rotary club backed a $2,500 grant in March 2025 — enough to buy sewing machines and materials and to train six teenage mothers to make reusable pads by hand. Tagi Social Enterprise was born.

how far we’ve come

Our journey so far

A community organisation

TAG-I begins SRHR education, advocacy and sanitary-towel donations across schools and villages in Uasin Gishu.

The Rotary grant — March 2025

A $2,500 Boone Sunrise Rotary grant funds machines, materials and the training of six young mothers.

Tagi Pads in production

The team begins making reusable pads by hand, with quality checks at every step.

KEBS certification — March 2026

Tagi Pads earn the Kenya Bureau of Standards mark — clearing the way to stock retail shelves and scale up.

the people behind it

Our team & board

Led by founder Lucy, with a board and a production team of trained young women. Full profiles are on the way.

Lucy

Lucy

Founder & Lead
Board member
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