Tag: menstrual hygiene
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Right to Menstrual Health Project: Learnings at a Teach For India Classroom
As part of our Right to Menstrual Health Project, we recently visited a TFI school in New Delhi’s Sangam Vihar area. Based on our conversations with the VII grade girls of the said Government Senior Secondary School, we realised that there exists a major gap in the knowledge dissemination process vis-a-vis the requisite learning standards…
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“Period” of Change: Acknowledging the Right to Menstrual Health
By Tanya Chandra, Founder, LexQuest Foundation. It can’t be stressed enough that menstruation is a mere biological phenomenon, so why does it bother a society so much that we need policies for menstruating women? To answer the aforementioned, one has to acknowledge the closely knit cultural and social spaces along with the psycho-social contexts in…
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Civic Architects: The Policy Workshop (Right to Menstrual Health)
In a democracy, people and their well being is at the core of an exemplary public policy mechanism, which is why proactive mass action can determine the fate of the policies that the State formulates. It is thus crucial that people demand policies on existing realities that deserve carefully crafted policies. We believe that in…
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Right to Menstrual Health Project
There is enough literature on how menstruation is a taboo, and how that fact adversely affects women’s and adolescent girls’ health in the country, but what has escaped our attention is how there are no well implemented or exemplary policies in place to address these concerns for effective Menstrual Hygiene Management. We thus launched the…