Menstrual health is not only about products. It is education, privacy, safety, confidence, and the ability to keep showing up fully.
Girls in sub-Saharan Africa have been estimated to miss school during their period.
Source · UNESCOWomen and girls globally lack adequate facilities for menstrual hygiene management.
Source · World BankStudents reached through OAM-supported menstrual hygiene education and pad donations in Ghana.
Source · OAM Project, 2021 to 2026The need touches girls and women on every continent. We started where Anne is, in Ghana. We are growing for every girl, ten and up, who needs the education, the supplies, and the confidence to keep showing up. Different places, the same hope.
Faces of the global circle
OAM is for girls and young women everywhere. From middle school through young adulthood, and the mothers who carry them through.
A transparent look at where OAM is active, where we are piloting, and where we are listening before we arrive. Every region has a real next step.
World Menstrual Hygiene Day 2026: expand to two additional schools in the Volta Region.
Pilot a first cohort of school based workshops and a period supply drive in 2026.
Identify a founding partner organization and run a small pilot circle in 2027.
Co design a culturally grounded curriculum with local educators.
Establish a first partner relationship and translate materials into Arabic.
Open a sponsorship pathway for one school based pilot.
OAM is not yet a registered nonprofit. Funds are managed personally by the founders and are not tax deductible. Every dollar is documented and tied to a region above.
Real days from the Ghana program. Real laughter, real classrooms, real girls. These are not abstractions. They are the reason we show up.
How a single weekly gathering reshaped attendance, confidence, and the conversation around the body.
Health literacy as the quiet infrastructure of opportunity.
Unedited reflections on shame, support, and the surprising power of being asked.
