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UNICEF's Booklet on Menstrual Hygiene Management Released
A short advocacy film has also been developed that focuses on the importance of menstrual hygiene and low cost sanitary napkin production units.
Sharing her experience and the convenience low cost sanitary napkins has provided her, Mohana, a 8th standard student from Nemelli Village, Kanchipuram District of Tamil Nadu said “ Earlier we did not know how to manage and were forced to go back home if our periods started in school. Now, we have to just keep an extra napkin in our school bag and thus are prepared anytime”
Impressed with the low cost sanitary napkin production and the vending machine installed in schools on an experimental basis, Mukherjee saw its huge relevance in tribal society and schools.
“I was so impressed by the way in which such interventions helped in building confidence and safeguarding the dignity of young women and adolescent girls”, he said.
With 2008 being the International Year of Sanitation (IYS), the Total Sanitation Campaign of the Government of India acquires added importance.
The focus on menstrual hygiene management is an essential part of promoting hygiene and sanitation amongst adolescent girls and women who constitute approximately 45 per cent of the total female population.
Lizette Burgers stressed “From the age of around 12 and until she reaches the menopause somewhere in her 40’s, every girl and woman has to deal with it. Overall, she spends approximately 2,100 days menstruating which is equivalent to almost six years of her life. So, there is no question that girls and women need to be equipped with proper information on how to handle this issue best for their health and dignity.”
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09/22/2011
Hey im currently working on a thesis to find
· EFFECT OF AUDIO-DRAMA ON THE KNOWLEDGE OF MENSTRUAL HYGIENE AMONG VISUALLY CHALLENGED GIRLS RESIDING IN SELECTED SPECIAL SCHOOLS.
do mail me if u have any related articles or tool....preethinow@gmail.com
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Teasma(Guest)
09/18/2011
Gaurav1611(Guest)
08/08/2010
My name is Gaurav varma, working in JEPC for UNICEF sponsored programme SSHE in Ranchi, Jharkhand. We have developed a three days training module on Menstrual Hygiene management for teachers.
amitav(Guest)
01/31/2011
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sonal.vibhavari(Guest)
03/24/2010
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04/15/2009
Thanks for your wonderful and innovative article. it's so good to know that we are now breaking out of the culture of silence surrounding these issues. My name is Chinwe Nweze and I work in an NGO based in Nigeria. In 2007 my organization organized a training on menstrual hygiene for hygiene officers. Presently from our experiences with the youth, we want to step down this training to adolscents in schools. I will appreciate if we can get the booklet and the advocacy film. Am looking forward to hearing from you. 04/02/2009
very gd publication, i realy appreciat it alot. I am 25years old and a nigerian. I run an NGO and am currntly planning to do a program on menstrual hygiene in the universities and and at the rural communities and as well give out free pads, I do all these to help my poeple wiyh my litle salary am yet to ever get funds for now. How do I get this booklet to pass the information on menstrual hygiene. My name is chinomso Ibe , my NGO is Traffina foundation for community health, . Thanks and expecting your reply Nomso
jhumpa ghosh(Guest)
03/18/2009
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