Sharing My Menstrual Cycle Journey To End Stigma On Periods

About once a month, females who have gone through puberty will experience menstrual bleeding.Years down the line, I shared my menstrual journey with some 750 girls in the Ahanta West District of the Western Region during the maiden edition of the Annual Yinson Girls Education Programme to mark 2023 World Menstural Hygiene Day.

But with the right support.Management of menstruation can present substantial challenges to girls especially in low-income settings so byempoweringthese adolescents with necessary information regarding menstruation and menstrual hygiene they are able to manage themselves during their periods.

The Yinson Education Programme is a collaboration between Ahanta West Directorate of Education aimed at improving education on Menstrual Hygiene and promotion of STEM for females in oil host communities.Menstrual hygiene is essential to girls and women’s health and well-being.

Unfortunately, millions of girls and women worldwide lack access to proper menstrual hygiene facilities and products due to the taxes imposedon the sanitary towels.

A phenomenon which sees a lot of girls/young women using other unconventional means and productsin managing their periods.Empowering girls and women with accurate information about menstruation and menstrual hygiene is crucial in breaking stigmas and taboos surrounding the subject.

Menstrual Education promotes a healthy attitude towards menstruation and enables girls and women to manage their periods with dignity and confidence.World Menstrual Hygiene Day is a global event observed annually on May 28th to raise awareness about the importance of menstrual hygiene and to break the silence and stigma surrounding menstruation.

This will enable us achieve the overarching goal  to build a world where no one is held back because they menstruate by 2030 and attaining  the  2023 Menstrual Hygiene Day theme  “making menstruation a normal fact of life by 2030 can be”.