EsVendo Sanitary Vending Machine
Esther Wanjiku Mwangi
EsVendo is a vending machine for sanitary napkins and other sanitary products.
The EsVendo Sanitary Vending Machine is a vending machine that offers sanitary pads and other sanitary products. By selling sanitary pads through a vending machine the social enterprise EsVendo hopes to increase access to the 65% of Kenyan women that do not have access to sanitary pads and reduce the amount of school days girls are unable to attend due to lack of access to sanitary pads. The SIP sanitary vending machine allows customers to buy pads by coins but there is also a version distributed in hospitals where the customer can use their mobile phone for purchase. A presentation video about EsVendo and the Social Inclusion Project can be found here.
EsVendo produces and has distributed vending machines. They also sell the vending machines to local entrepreneurs.
EsVendo sells vending machines for 310 USDConverted on August 2019
In Kenya competition is mainly from sales from local retail shops. There are several other sanitary vending machines on the global market, especially in India. Examples are SUVIDHA, Vendigo, Napivend and machines from: Futuretechniks, Sara equipments and Ssandassociates
Goal 3: Good health and well-being
Girls and women in Kenya, EsVendo especially focuses the distribution of vending machine to low income areas
