The first week of October is Comfy Care12 Menstrual Health and Hygiene Week. It’s a popular time in Tanzania for visitors from other countries to come and enjoy what our nation has to offer – the best safari experiences in the world, the challenge and spectacle of Mt Kilimanjaro, and the famous warm and welcoming hospitality of the Tanzanian people – Karibu! Comfy Care12 Menstrual Health and Hygiene Week offers a time to reflect on the needs of some of the most vulnerable Tanzanians – women and adolescent girls in rural areas. Women and adolescent girls in rural areas face many challenges due to poverty, including lack of access to education. This challenge is exacerbated by the fact that each month they must deal with the indignity of having a period without access to sanitary products.