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Creating awareness about menstrual hygiene and Health education of the coastal poor adolescent girls.

Campaign by SHIBGANJ INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY

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Adolescence is a beautiful period of life and generally a healthy one. But this is also a period when a person is most vulnerable; the overall growth and development and also the physical, reproductive and psychological changes expose the adolescents to many health risks. One of the most common health concerns among adolescent’s girls in our country is under nutrition and anemia. Morbidity and mortality occurring in this age group is mostly due to preventable causes.

Teenage pregnancies may adversely affect the health of the women. Menstruation is a phenomenon unique to all females. The first menstruation is often horrifying and traumatic to adolescent girls because it usually occurs without her knowing about it. it is linked with several misconceptions and practices which sometimes result into adverse health outcomes.

 

Menstruation is generally considered as unclean in the Indian Society.  Lack of accurate information, absence of proper guidance, parent’s ignorance, lack of skills and insufficient services from health care delivery system are the major barriers. But the adolescents are the future of the nation, forming a major demographic and economic force. Millions of girls drop out of school annually due to the shame on the subject and unavailability of menstrual hygiene management facilities in our country. The lockdown situation has badly hit the income sources of many people who earned through daily wage labor. This has created a barrier for adolescents to obtain necessary napkins for their menstrual hygiene. They are being forced to use the old method.

  1. Each and every girl should be aware about menstruation which is an important event at the threshold of adolescence and ideally a mother should be the main informant at this tender age.
  2. Health education including sex education should be accessible to all adolescents. They also should be aware of dangers of risky sexual behaviors.
  3. Providing a safe environment, educating them and protecting them is one of the most important responsibilities towards them.

·     4. Psychological support and counseling can overcome the problems of emotional disturbances, depression, anxiety and eating disorders. 

·     5. Maintenance of good hygiene especially during menstruation is important.

·   6. Careful and unobtrusive attention to each aspect of health at this stage will help adolescents grow into healthy and responsible adults.

·    7. Poverty, high cost of disposable sanitary pads and to some extent ignorance dissuaded the study population from using the menstrual absorbents

available in the market.

Realizing the above problems, the organization plans to do the following-

  1. Awareness programs for two days with 60 adolescents. Five awareness programs will be held.
  2. One counselling centre will be established for one year for counselling the mothers and adolescents. One trained counsellor will be appointed for this.
  3. Two health workers will be appointed for door to door visit for creating awareness among the poor and disadvantaged mothers and adolescents.
  4. Sanitary pads will be supplied among the poor adolescents during door to door visit, training period and counselling centre.
  1. 300 school girls will be directly aware and they will take prominent role as Social Animators in the society.
  2.  Participation of girls and women  in social development activities will be increased.
  3. 6000 girls and mothers will be directly motivated through door to door counseling and from counselling centre.
  4. Positive thinking will be developed among adolescents about malnutrition, anemia, reproductive health, physical and psychological changes, maintenance of good hygiene etc.
  5. Each women and girls will be able to resist the violence and diseases against them.
  6. 12000 packets of napkins will be distributed among the poor adolescents free of cost.
  7. Women will be organized and will get back confidence to raise their voice against exploitation.                                                                            
Organisers
SHIBGANJ INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY

SHIBGANJ INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY

Beneficiary Charity

Archita das

Archita das

Organiser

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