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Deciphering Menstrual Taboos



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Here we were at GSS Bossa Bali in the North West region of Cameroon donating sanitary napkins to girls from indigenous communities who are not able to afford mainstream sanitary napkins due to poverty.

Menstruation is a normal biological process and a key sign of reproductive health, yet in many cultures it is treated as something negative, shameful or dirty. The continued silence around menstruation combined with limited access to information at home and in schools results in millions of women and girls having very little knowledge about what is happening to their bodies when they menstruate and how to deal with it. A study from UNICEF revealed that 1 out of 3 girls in South Asia knew nothing about menstruation prior to getting it while 48% of girls in Iran and 10% of girls in India believe that menstruation is a disease.



Our generation is responsible to break the taboos that has been around menstrual for centuries so as to give women and girls the worl over the esteem they so deserve.I will love to invite you to visit our website,check our recent work and join us on this empowerment journey.



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