Sustainable Health Enterprises (SHE)
Some girls in Africa miss many days of school or drop out entirely when they start to menstruate. Sustainable Health Enterprises (SHE) tries to address this challenge by helping local women start their own businesses manufacturing and distributing low-cost sanitary pads. Echoing Green, one of the premier seed funders of social enterprises, named SHE 1 of the 20 most innovative social ventures worldwide (out of 1,500 applicants). Harvard Business School named SHE founder Elizabeth Scharpf its first Social Enterprise Fellow.
