The Power of Days: A Story of Resilience, Dignity, and the Fight for Women's Equity

In 2008, Celeste Mergens was working with an overcrowded orphanage on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya, when she learned that menstruating girls sat on cardboard in their rooms for several days each month.



This set into motion a simple idea-combining a washable, long-lasting pad with taboo-breaking education-that became a catalyst for an unlikely global movement for equity.



Written in short, evocative chapters, The Power of Days tells the story of Mergens's quest to rally a global response to ...