Free Sanitary Pad Donation & Menstrual Literacy Workshop | Meerut | 26th Nov 2022

Priya(name changed) grew up believing that menstrual blood is dirty. Is it any stretch of imagination then that she considered herself impure during her menstrual week?

Year after year, she would eat alone in the kitchen, absent herself from social ceremonies, and rather vehemently feared staining her clothes. Priya's elder sister had grown up the same way.

And she too, perhaps, would have raised her daughters in the same way - treating their normal bodily functions as taboo. She would have done so had she not attended the menstrual health and hygiene workshop that was organised at Deen Dayal Upadhyay Model Inter College Kharkhoda, Meerut on 26th November 2022 by Pinkishe Foundation.

It wasn't an easy conversation for her at first. But as a dialogue opened and our facilitator Mrs. Rajrani Sharma informed the students about Menstrual hygiene and menstrual cramps, she felt more comfortable. Unlike lacs of women that Pinkishe works with, she did know about sanitary pads.

However, in the session she learned about the correct method of sanitary pad disposal. Pinkshe Foundation urges all of us to take sustainable menstrual solutions very seriously. Additionally, to help with painful cramps like hers, period friendly yoga postures were demonstrated.

Bleeding with dignity is more than a fundamental human right. Do you think that there should be sanitary pad vending machines in all educational institutions?

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