Niñas Sabias, also known as Wise Girls, is a nonprofit organization working with girls, women teachers, schools, and local communities in Mexico and Costa Rica. Its work begins with a simple fact that still shapes the lives of many girls: menstruation is often surrounded by silence, shame, poor information, and limited access to safe products.
The organization responds through education, body and cycle literacy, teacher training, and locally made menstrual kits. Its mission is to help girls grow healthy, safe, and wise, with the knowledge and confidence to understand their bodies, protect their rights, and take part in school and community life with greater agency.
Their mission
At the center of this work is the Wise Girls Workshop, a menstrual education and body literacy program for girls entering or experiencing puberty. The workshop is taught by certified Wise Girls Teachers and is designed for schools and communities, with particular attention to rural, indigenous, and underserved contexts.
The program combines science, conversation, personal experience, and culturally sensitive education. Girls learn about menstruation, fertility, anatomy, hygiene, human rights, and the practical choices available to them. The goal is clear: reduce stigma, strengthen self-esteem, support school attendance, and give girls tools they can use in their own lives.
Niñas Sabias also works through a model of local production. Reusable menstrual kits are made by women’s rural enterprises, micro-enterprises, and sewing groups. In San Miguel Cuyutlán, a women’s enterprise has been trained to manufacture Niñas Sabias Kits. In Lake Chapala, volunteers sew container and transport bags, helping reduce costs and keep the project rooted in community participation.
The model has also expanded beyond Mexico
In Costa Rica, Niñas Sabias collaborates with women’s projects and micro-enterprises such as Tarde de Telas y Té in San José, Incá^ in the Boruca Indigenous territory, and the Costa Rican Humanitarian Foundation’s Four Heart Arts. These partnerships help produce and distribute kits for girls who take part in the workshops.
This structure gives the project a double force. Girls receive knowledge and materials. Women gain skills, income opportunities, and a role in sustaining the program. Education and entrepreneurship move together, connected by the same practical question: what does a girl need in order to feel prepared, respected, and safe?
Ayzoh! works closely with Niñas Sabias to document and amplify these themes with care. The collaboration will focus on the voices of girls, women, teachers, and communities, avoiding simplified narratives and placing dignity, knowledge, and lived experience at the center.
Niñas Sabias shows how menstrual education can become a form of social infrastructure. A workshop, a reusable kit, a trained teacher, a circle of girls speaking without fear: each element is small enough to hold in the hand, and strong enough to change the way a girl moves through the world.
