Health literacy for
every body,
every age.
TPAWI (The Pink and White Empowerment Initiative) is a youth-led public health organisation improving health literacy and equitable health outcomes in underserved communities across Nigeria. Through digital campaigns, school programmes, research, and advocacy, we empower women, girls, and families with accessible health education and support.
A quiet revolution
in everyday care.
Founded in 2024, The Pink and White Empowerment Initiative confronts a stubborn problem: too many people lack access to accurate health information and the basic products that make wellness possible.
TPAWI's mission is to empower communities by addressing public health challenges and reducing health illiteracy across all ages and genders. Through essential health education, resources, and community-based programs, we strive to create healthier, informed populations.
We envision a world where every individual — regardless of age or gender — has access to accurate health information, essential resources, and the opportunity to lead a dignified and healthy life.
For every life stage
From schoolgirls to grandmothers — programs designed across the lifespan, with no one quietly left behind.
Knowledge first
Hygiene, nutrition, disease prevention, reproductive health — taught in plain language, in local context.
Built to last
Pad banks, mobile clinics, and partnerships that outlive any single visit. Infrastructure, not events.
Six programs,
one mission.
Each program is a tested response to a specific gap — designed in collaboration with the people we serve, refined every cycle.
Reaching those most often overlooked.
Our programs are designed to find the people facing the steepest barriers — and meet them with the resources they actually need.
Young girls in schools
Girls who miss class, lose confidence, or drop out for lack of menstrual products. Our pad banks and school programs put dignity back on the desk.
Young women
Facing the financial weight of period poverty.
Low-income families
Limited access to healthcare and literacy resources.
Rural communities
Remote villages where the nearest clinic is hours away — and where mobile health visits and pad banks have outsized impact.
Affected by stigma
Those isolated by taboos around menstruation and reproductive health.
The general public
Because health literacy lifts whole communities, not just individuals.
Moments from
the field.
A look at outreaches, workshops, and partnerships across Lagos and partner communities.
World Malaria Day 2026
Market outreach, prevention messages, and community pledge moments.
World Menstrual Hygiene Day 2025
Menstrual health education, pads, and awareness materials.
World Malaria Day 2025
Field moments, volunteer portraits, and malaria awareness activities.
Hepatitis B Vaccine Outreach 2025
Vaccination awareness signage and campaign team moments.
The people behind the work.
A small, deliberate team of researchers, healthcare professionals, educators, and community organizers — each bringing the lived experience and expertise the work requires.
Surajah Surajudeen-Bakinde is a Pharmacist and Public Health Advocate with an MBA/MPH in view. She founded TPAWI and leads its vision, strategy, and partnerships, with a focus on building sustainable systems for health education, research, and community-driven impact across underserved communities in Nigeria.
Pharmacist. Researcher.
Software Engineer. AI/ML Consultant.
PharmD in view.
PharmD in view.
A ten-year plan, paced honestly.
We measure ourselves by what changes in a girl's life, not by the size of the headline. Here's what we're committing to.
- Reach 250,000 people a year through digital health literacy campaigns.
- Pad banks and school health programmes in 15 schools and community hubs.
- Operationalise the TPAWI Research Team and pilot the MHL Index.
- Build partnerships with 5+ schools, NGOs, PHCs, and media platforms.
- Reach 500,000 people a year across digital and community campaigns.
- Scale pad banks and school programmes to 30 schools.
- Publish the first national MHL Index report.
- Open formal advocacy with ministries, PHC boards, and legislators.
- Reach 5 million+ people — Nigeria’s leading youth-driven health literacy platform.
- Pad banks and sustained programmes across 100 schools and community centres.
- Establish the MHL Index as a national research and policy instrument.
- Win reforms: tax-free menstrual products and stronger health education in schools.
Awareness days &
upcoming outreaches.
The dates we observe and the work we're scheduling around them. Subscribe to follow along, or join us on the ground.
Four ways to
show up.
Whether you have time, expertise, or resources — there is a way to make this work yours. Pick the one that fits.
Become a member
Join from ₦2,000 a month. Four tiers, all with full transparency on where your contribution goes.
Volunteer with us
Outreach days, distribution events, school visits. We'll match you to where you can do the most.
Join the research team
Health literacy, menstrual equity, behavioral change — contribute to evidence-based programs.
Partner with us
NGOs, schools, healthcare providers, brands — we work with partners committed to long-term impact.
Every naira stocks a pad bank,
fuels a clinic, opens a classroom.
We publish a quarterly impact report so every supporter sees exactly where their contribution went. No black box, no boilerplate.