ECO DIVA

 Many girls are uninformed and unprepared for menstruation, and experience fear and anxiety upon reaching menarche . Mothers, other female relatives, and female peers are their main sources of information, but this information is often neither adequate nor timely.Girls experience a variety of symptoms, such as pain, headaches, and fatigue, and—when combined with social and cultural taboos—they often cannot participate in household, educational, employment, social and/or religious activities . Few girls seek health care when they experience menstrual problems, but many use household remedies. Lastly, girls in rural and poor urban communities and humanitarian crisis settings are less likely to be able to access and/or use menstrual products to manage menstruation, and often lack access to soap, safe water, and functional and secure toilets/latrines with mechanisms for private disposal of used menstrual products . These challenges have immediate and longer-term consequences for girls in relation to their confidence and self-efficacy, their ability to participate in day-to-day activities such as education and employment, and their health and wellbeing.

ECO-DIVA strive to introduce and model environmentally friendly disposal of menstrual waste; Reuse, Reduce, Recycle to handle menstrual waste as a solution to solid waste and as an environmentally friendly waste disposal mechanisms. Designate a disposal site where all the menstrual waste shall be collected.Earth worms shall be introduced to consume the menstrual wastes, reducing it from the volume piles while the worms will be used as chicken feeds. The disintegrated material shall be used as compost manure an alternative of chemical fertilizers for plants and crops thus kitchen gardening and livelihoods for the enterprises. Encourage reusable pads to innovatively reduce cost of menstrual products, reduce carbon dioxide emissions, and produce less trash.