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The Covid-19 epidemic severely influences girls’ and women’s capacity to appropriately manage their menstrual hygiene and health. They had to cope with several challenges to deal with their menstrual cycle dignifiedly, particularly girls from low-income families, such as restricted access to sanitary pads, sanitation facilities, and social support.
Plan India created “Menstrual Hygiene Education in India” in collaboration with Kotex to assure girls’ capacity to manage menstruation with confidence, dignity, safety, and confidence as part of its efforts to improve adolescent girls’ health and eradicate period poverty. This is planned via a gender transformational process that results in a positive shift in mindset, including removing the stigma associated with menstruation health and cleanliness.
The COVID-19 epidemic severely influences girls’ and women’s capacity to appropriately manage their menstrual hygiene and health. They had to cope with several challenges to deal with their menstrual cycle dignifiedly, particularly girls from low-income families, such as restricted access to sanitary pads, sanitation facilities, and social support.
Plan India created “Menstrual Hygiene Education in India” in collaboration with Kotex to assure girls’ capacity to manage menstruation with confidence, dignity, safety, and confidence as part of its efforts to improve adolescent girls’ health and eradicate period poverty. This is planned via a gender transformational process that results in a positive shift in mindset, including removing the stigma associated with menstruation health and cleanliness.
Menstrual Hygiene
Periods! While they are among the signs that a female body is functioning healthily, “that time of the month” is more typically greeted with sighs at the hassle, and for many, dread at the cramping and other painful effects of menstruation.
But one afternoon, in the sunny courtyard of a school in rural Alwar, Rajasthan, the mood around periods is one of excitement.
A sea of students chat and giggle as they gather around two women from Project Baala, a social enterprise, who have come to conduct a talk to demystify menstruation.
“Whose periods have started? Whose periods have not started? Who has stomach pain?” asks Aradhana Gupta, co-founder of Project Baala, as a wave of raised hands greet her in response.
At the end of the session, Aradhana and Rishita Aggarwal, a Project Baala volunteer, distribute reusable sanitary pads to the girls, who receive them with cheers.