In her effort to support the community especially girls and women, Tanzanian Model and enterpreneur Miss Flaviana Matata has launched her new product the ‘Lavy Sanitary Pads’, a feminine sanitary pads of high quality, safe to use,comfortable and affordable.

The product, launched under the slogan “Siku Zako Ni Siku Zetu”, with the ultimate goal of breaking the silence and removing the negative notion about menstruation in the society, that menstruation is secret or shameful and it concerns the girls/female alone.

Although the product is commercial, it has a major goal of helping vulnerable girls to get the pads for free while in school.

This particular measure aims to reduce the challenge for girls to miss 3-5 days of school every month due to menstruation.

To successfully achieve these two goals, Lavy Pads will donate 10 per cent of profit from the products which will go directly to help girls in schools.

Lavy Pads have already identified 100 girls that will be getting free pads every year when in school.

Among those beneficiaries are 20 girls from Msinune Primary School in Kiwangwa Bagamoyo (Tanzania), the school that has been working closely with Flaviana as their guardian under Flaviana Matata Foundation.

Speaking about the product Flaviana said “This has been my dream that I have been working on for 6 years now, my main goal is to make sure girls do not miss their studies or other developmental activities due to menstrual challenges. Also to dispel the notion of girls/women and society as a whole that menstruation is a shameful, secretive and dirty issue as some people take it”

‘Lavy Pads are available in small size (290mm) and large size (330mm) with a total of eight pads in one pack, we have made every effort to make sure the product is available in many stores so that every Tanzanian has a chance to enjoy its quality and contribute to these efforts and our cause to empower girls for every pad they buy” She added.

In a brief interview with Ommy Dallah, the beauty queen revealed that she is also intending to introduce the product outside the Tanzanian market.

"For sure, currently looking for distributors and partners" she charged.

Flaviana has been at the forefront in empowering girls through her foundation, Flaviana Matata Foundation. few days ago she handed over two newly constructed  houses to be used by teachers from a local girls school in Tanzania.