By Samirah Faruk | Project Leader
Dear Family, Friends and supporters of Serendipity Healthcare Foundation,
As part of our Water and Sanitation Intervention project, menstrual health hygiene is one of thepressing needs for menstruating girls in junior and senior secondary schools in Kano Nigeria. Most of the girls stay away from school during their periods because they do not have access to sanitary towels that would last them for a long time before being replaced with a new one and thus rely on rags with is not hygienic. Their schools do not have adequate toilets with handwashing stations and thus they stay back home during the period cycle.
This subject is one of the most closely guarded secret that most females are reluctant to talk about. There is a lot of knowledge gap on menstrual hygiene practices, signs and symptoms of onset of menstruation, what to do when there is not a doctor around.
We have thus far distributed 200 sanitary wears since the initiation of the start of Menstrual Hygiene Health program August ,2024 and recently distributed 30 more of the sanitary wears to additional 30 girls in Government Girls Secondary School in Gadan Tudun Fulani, Ungogo Local Governing Council, with 11 of them volunteering to being our menstrual hygiene champions. We hope to provide 1,000 more sanitary wares before the end of the year 2025.
We had training sessions with the girls on understanding pre menstrual systoms, how to balance their emotions as mood swings occur during this period and First Aid and knowing at what point to go to the hospital.
We have gotten a another partnership with a company that manufactures a pack of 30 pieces at a cost of $3 or NGN5,100.00 for 1 girl that would last her for two cycles.
We are currently working on a book which we would distribute during our training sessions to the girls as a fall back to constantly remind them on what to do pre, during and after menstruation. We have the approval of the local councils approval from Ungogo and Tofa Local Government, in Kano.
During the week of World Menstrual Hygiene Day 28th May, there are lined up activities such as workshop, online meetings on self care, self love and understanding the symptoms. we would embark upon thus stay tuned on our social media handles to be updated on what we do. https://Facebook.com/serenhealthcare https://nstagram.com/serendipityHea1 https://twitter.com/serendipityHea1 or our website on https://serendipityhealthcare.org.in
Best Regards,
Samirah Faruk
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