A lifestyle choice...

The MPower menstrual cup is an innovative menstruation product made in South Africa. The MPower menstrual cup is eco-friendly, economical, effective and empowering. By using an MPower cup you save money, you save yourself and you save the environment. You empower yourself and others. No tampons. No pads. No 'period pains'.

The facts:

  • One MPower cup is 1 200 pads / tampons, over a five-year period.
  • 160 million tampons / pads get thrown away in South Africa every year.
  • Over the next 50 years 104 thousand million pads / tampons will be thrown away in South Africa alone.
  • The feminine hygiene market is an R800 million business, with only 40% of the South African market being able to afford traditional sanitary ware.

Retail Price: R265

Check out the independant reviews of my product:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1ggzb16q8I
http://menstrualcupinfo.wordpress.com/about-mpower-cup/

THE KARABO INITIATIVE R195 pledge drive
My vision has always been to supply MPower menstrual cups to the mass market of women who have no access to sanitary ware. These women literally have no choice.

The facts:

  • 60% of women in South Africa do not have access to traditional sanitary ware (pads and tampons).
  • They lack access to basic amenties, running water, refuse collection, electricity and toilets, even if they did have access to sanitary ware it would not be a viable option
  • As an "alternative" to pads and tampons, they use rags, toilet paper, newspaper, leaves, "recycled" tampons / pads and disposable nappies.
  • The disposal of sanitary ware (even the "alternatives") is adding to the existing poor conditions in which these women live.
  • The average girl living in a community affected by poverty will miss a week of school each month due to lack of sanitary ware, this equates to 20% of the school year.
  • In these communities menstruating is a dirty word - the women literally smell and their clothes are soiled.
  • These women are being disempowered and stripped of their dignity on the most basic level.

A donation R195 will provide a cup for one woman:

  • 1 000 cups for Women's month 2010
  • 1 million cups for Women's month 2015

Nedbank Savings account

Account number 204 706 9084

Branch code 104 709

Account name: Glenda Tutt

Your name + pledge as reference.  Please send me an email with your contact number and email address to be added to our pledge register.