Today, millions of women and girls around the world are stigmatized, excluded, and discriminated against simply because they menstruate.
Today’s special lecture on menstrual hygiene management at Kumbaya Community School focused on various aspects of menstrual health coupled with mental health and spiritual wellbeing concepts.
The Visionary Students Initiative-VSI, Reach One Child Foundation-R1CF, Nyali Zambia, Children’s Development and Empowerment Foundation-CDEF, C.K Foundation, and partners are working together to: (I) Break the taboos and end the stigma surrounding menstruation(ii)Raise awareness about the challenges regarding access to menstrual products, education about menstruation and period-friendly sanitation facilities(iii)Mobilize the sanitary pads required for action at scale.
The organizations have urged the government to join the fight against period poverty in Zambia. One of the ways to achieve this is by rolling out interventions aimed at making sanitary pads free for every girl child.
