Open spaces. Youth-led action.

Young people in Ruaraka, Nairobi, taking action on health, education, advocacy and the environment.

We are Wazi. We started in 2018, and today we keep menstrual products within reach of students in school.

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Wazi volunteers leap together with arms raised on a green lawn.
Wazi and CAEL volunteers smile behind stacks of purple pad cartons beside a pickup.
Five women sit together holding menstrual health and dignity placards against a bright mural.
A volunteer kneels to plant a young tree with a red shovel beside her.
A large outdoor school assembly fills rows of chairs beneath trees and a yellow classroom block.

The power of collective action!

13 dispensers. 1,500+ users.

A period should not close a door.

Products, knowledge and freedom from stigma belong together. That is why our work starts at a school dispenser and goes beyond it.

This is what showing up looks like.

School corridors, creative classrooms and the partners who make the work possible. Watch a moment from our community.

From a classroom to a dispenser

SMYLE Phase 2 in Ruaraka schools, June to September 2025. A silent documentary with original on-screen text.

Teenagers collaborate over coloured paper while making thinking hats in a classroom.
Thinking hats, shared ideas. AYP Mentorship, December 2025.

A partnership you can see

CAEL provided 50 cartons of pads for six Ruaraka schools. October 2026; original on-screen text.

Five women sit together holding menstrual health and dignity placards against a bright mural.
Evidence, dignity and public voice. December 2025.

Young people turn ideas into action

Meet Green the Red: our youth-led research and advocacy work. June 2026. Embedded subtitles retained.

Two teammates in orange vests hug and smile among green forest leaves.
Open spaces start with people. Our team, June 2023.

One community.
Four ways forward.

Health, education, advocacy and the environment connect in the lives of young people.

500+ mentees have taken part in AYP. We surveyed 1,482 young people through SMYLE Phase 2 and took youth voices to UNEA-7 in December 2025.

A teenager smiles and makes a peace sign while wearing a handmade blue paper hat.
Room to learnAYP Holiday Mentorship and grassroots education.
A volunteer kneels to plant a young tree with a red shovel beside her.
A future to care forTree planting, climate learning and community action.

Building period-friendly communities requires all of us.

Explore our four pillars
Wazi and CAEL volunteers open a stocked wall dispenser in a blue and yellow corridor.
Wazi and CAEL volunteers stock a school dispenser, October 2026.

Built here. Working here.

On 20 March 2026, we shared our SMYLE Phase 2 update: six Ruaraka schools, 1,482 young people surveyed, and dispensers installed with Be Kids Australia.

dispensers installed
13
Across 8 school and university institutions in our dispenser programme.
direct dispenser users
1,500+
People who have used the Wazi Dispenser Model.
young people surveyed
1,482
SMYLE Phase 2, six Ruaraka schools.

Read the school updateResults and how we count

We started by making space.

From an arboretum bench to school corridors and global conversations. Every step has people behind it.

  1. 2018

    A circle of young people

    Wazi begins at the Kenyatta University Arboretum.

  2. 2023

    A registered CBO

    Our community work gains a formal home in Ruaraka.

  3. 2025

    Youth voices travel

    We take part in UNEA-7 in Nairobi.

  4. 2026

    The next school term

    Help keep existing school dispensers stocked.

    Find your part

Alongside our community:

  • Be Kids Australia
  • Kenyatta University
  • CAEL
  • Global Youth Mobilization
  • Ufanisi Education Center
Meet the wider network

There is a place for you.

VolunteerMake room in your month for youth-led action.PartnerBring funding, expertise or a shared idea.SupportHelp keep menstrual products within reach.

The next term starts with us.

Volunteer, partner or support the work. Every part counts.

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Wazi in action