The Menstrual Hygiene Day is observed to create awareness and to act to address the challenges and hardships faced by women and adolescent girls during menstruation.
Thematically, the 10th Menstrual Hygiene Day celebrated on the 28th of May 2024, underlined the commitment to making menstruation a normalized and respected aspect of life. The focus was on ensuring that by 2030, no one is held back because they menstruate. This vision aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly those related to health, education, and gender equality.
The Girl Power Clubs Africa joined the world in making this day a memorable one specifically in Kenya around the Kibera neighborhoods.
The facilitation of menstrual hygiene.
Every organization was doing it in its own way. For Girl Power Clubs Africa, we went to one of the schools which we partner with, to talk about how society views menstruation and if fathers and other stakeholders in the society were involved in creating awareness to everyone in the society to be part of it and help the girls during their cycle by providing sanitary towel and any basic thing
The girls were given a forum to share their views on how society viewed menstruation, it was the negative response that most fathers are not involved furthermore they view it as the mother’s responsibility to handle such issues, what if a girl doesn’t have a mother who will help her during this journey? This question keeps ringing in the girls' minds and community as a whole.
The mentors facilitated proper hygiene to the girls
during their cycle, disposing of used sanitary towels and how to wear them, and
what challenges they are facing during their cycle and is a lot of challenge
that needs to be addressed so that our girls overcome this menstrual stigma.
By Laura Adera, Sadili
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