AFRICAN TIES KNOTS ON MENSTRUAL HYGIENE MOVEMENTS

On Menstrual Health Management (MHM) for the sake of disenfranchised girls and women (DW) in their Africa nations, this has always been an issue for women though considered private and sometimes shameful, meanwhile deadly with many terminal sicknesses usually affecting the vaginal part of women. Basically because of the infections associated with this menstrual health, International, National activist and non-governmental organizations have advocated to provide way-out of these issues and break down taboos and strengthen response on women and girls’ for menstrual hygiene which occur monthly. Many DW in marginalized communities’ slums and even cities are still facing serious problems even in this civilized digital generation. The CEO Dr Solange Swiri Tumasang and CEO Mr Isaac ADEYEMO of Dr. Tumasang Swiri Foundation in Cameroon and Mordecai Care Foundation of Nigeria respectively non-governmental organizations and Civil Society organizations tied knots to combat this menace among DW and girls providing lasting solutions by training 12 other organizations on how to use the menstrual products (reusable pads) to replaced disposable pads tampon in their initiatives at grassroots breaking the trends of how inadequate MHM negatively impacts school girls and DW which is silently killing women and girls due to ignorant , lack of education, Poverty and unemployment that’s turning them into sex slavery everywhere.

With the UN Sustainable Development Goals SDG 3, 4, 6, 8 (Quality Education, Good Health & Well-being, Clean Water & Sanitation, Decent Work & Economic Growth) engaged with, by the duo organizations in their respective country to solve the above problems facing women and girls.

With present innovation in this dispensation, quality, safety and availability of the reusable pads is crucial for everyone. Reusable products have been developed for the purpose of DW and girls who cannot afford the real disposable pads. Training 12 organizations in Nigeria implies training trainers and trainers training the DW and girls leaders in different communities, spreading the information and making the movement effective to reach more than 3 million women within 3 years.

 Main Objectives:

·        To develop further on all research work done on menstruation flow of blood and tissue pinning the uterus through the vagina ranging from 2-7 days with quality, safety and available reusable pads always.

·        Educative Program where organization sensitized the community people on how to make reusable menstrual pads quarterly.

·        Empowerment of women and girls via micro-finance soft loan to be financially independent.

·        Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Campaigns in rural communities to be organized quarterly.

The Africa we want, where everyone has access to all amenity’s sustainable life infrastructures, SDG’S 3,4,5,6 & 8 (Good health and wellbeing, Quality Education, Gender Equality, Clean Water and Sanitation, Decent Work and Economic Growth) for all, promoting life at the peak (LG). We are building on existing conferences proceedings to follow up on dimension of approach of disseminating this movements to every part of African to curb this menace thereby making the movement effective to reach more than 3Million women within 3 years, women and girls must be free from MHM challenges.

As a civil society organization promoting and advocating these SDG 3,4,5,6 & 8. In 2016 reference to MHM was made both in the committee on the rights of women (especially in rural women) committee on the rights of the child (CRC) and the human rights councils (UNHRC), CEDAW, CRC, UNHRC,2016. Committee on Economic, social and cultural rights that work, facilities should meet women’s specific hygiene needs (CESCR, 2016) With this indication MHM is considered to be a human right.

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