Young girls making menstruation hygienic
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Shubha Kayastha
Making Menstruation hygienic and ‘fun’
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• When was the first time you heard about menstruation?
What was your age?By whom?What was been said and what did you
understood?
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Background
•In Nepal, Menstrual taboos that are deeply rooted in the culture of some castes prohibit women and girls from fully participating in daily life and inhibit their education.
• Some girls and women are not allowed to enter a kitchen, touch water, attend religious functions, and in extreme cases, are not allowed to drink cow milk, eat fruit or sleep in a bed.
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Young girls and Water, sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
School drop out of adolescent girls
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Chhaupadi
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Market available Sanitary Pads:
• Hygienic but usually expensive, not available everywhere
• Easy to carry, difficult to dispose • Use of chemicals for white colour
MSP → Papers → woods and natural materials→ cutting down of trees → deforestation
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• Women and girls in poor countries can’t affordsanitary pads or tampons
• Instead, the vast majority of women and girls in Nepal use rags. These are usually torn from old clothes
• washable, reusable,• Unhygienic - Dried in dark shade • Issues of shame
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Alternative Sanitary Pad (ASP)
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Merits and Demerits Alternative Sanitary Pad (ASP)
• Affordable, can use available resources • (Rs. 50-60 = less than $1)• reusable but not always practical• Environmental friendly but could have
negative consequences to health (if not properly washed and dried)
• Applicable in the rural areas and attractive (designs and sewing)
• No chemicals, harmful elements
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Project on Alternative Sanitary Pad (ASP)
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After the orientation………
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Menstruation MELA
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A young couple making ASP together
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Achievements:
Tara Sharma, (18) said, ‘Now I can carry it easily without being identified by others.’
A male youth supervisor (32) shared, this is a new concept and will be popular in our village
A young girl (19), from Western Nepal shared that, ‘I have made few more and gifted to my cousins’
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THANK YOUNAMASTE