By: Iyanda Sodiq June 1, 2019 0658
His Marvellous Grace Support Foundation (HMGSF) in collaboration with other sister NGOs marked this year's Menstrual Hygiene Day in grand style with over 1000 menstrual pads donated and over 600 girls reached with basic information on menstrual hygiene with over 400 female mirrors and writing pens.
The international day set aside by the World Health Organisation is every 28th day of May, to annually raise awareness for and highlight the importance of good and healthy menstrual hygiene management (MHM). This initiative was initiated by the German-based NGO WASH United in 2014 and 28th May was selected to acknowledge that 28 days is the average length of the menstrual cycle. The Menstrual Hygiene Day (MHD), also called MH Day aims to educate, orientate, equip and benefit women and girls worldwide with the right education, knowledge and medical culture of an healthy menstrual hygiene.
MHD creates an occasion for sensitising, publicizing and sharing relevant information and materials to the women and girls through organized campaigns, awareness talks, public outreaches, community dialogues and so on. The day is usually not completed without discussing the types of menstrual hygiene materials to be used during the monthly blood flow and advocacy for the integration of menstrual hygiene management into global, national and local policies and programmes.
It's in this vein and spirit of celebration of MHD that, His Marvellous Grace Support Foundation, a community-based NGO in Ikorodu, Lagos State, joined the rest of the world to celebrate and reiterate the importance of MHD and the values embedded in it. The foundation made it a day with the female students of Keme Balogun Junior Secondary School, Ibeshe, Ikorodu, in Lagos State to sensitise and distribute pads to the students.
In attendance were the founder of HMGSF, Dr. (Mrs.) Oluwadamisi Tayo-Ladega, Mrs. Jennifer Dukwun of Justice Makers Initiative, Barrister (Mrs.) Bukola Ogunsola of Citizens Mediation Centre and Ambassador Yomi, Lagos State Youth Ambassador among many other attendees, including the foundation's volunteers. His Marvellous Grace Support Foundation, partnered with other NGOs to celebrate this year's IMHD
While addressing the girl students of Keme Balogun Junior Secondary School, Mrs. Jennifer Dukwun of Justice Maker Initiative stressed the relationship between menstruation and cleanliness. She said to have a free flow of blood, less complicated menstrual cycle and odorless blood flow, one needs to be exceptionally clean and hygienic in nature. She demonstrated how menstrual pads are fixed, used and cared for.
In her own awakening calls, Barrister Bukola Ogunsola of Citizens Mediation Centre orientated the girls that, puberty is an offshoot of menstruation. She said, menstruation gives way to being a potential mother in the future and that it signals the beginning of total womanhood. She went even further to admonition the girls to imbibe positive attitudes about menstruation, that it doesn't stop them from being great and achieving their set goals in life. She also stressed the need for girls not to scared of sighting menstruation at inception, but rather cherish it, and see it as a call to eschew all forms of immorality that can lead to unwanted pregnancy, abortion, sexual blackmailing, untimely death among other vices. Barrister Bukola in her closing remarks introduced the students to the Citizens Mediation Centre as a right place to voice out their grievances and get them settled amicably.
The students while giving their remarks appreciated His Marvellous Grace Support Foundation and other NGOs, Justice Makers Initiative, Vision Spring Initiative, Kids and Teens Resource Centre, Lagos State Youth Ambassador, Clean and Teens Youth Initiative, Divine Women of Purpose Association, Lagos State Citizens Mediation Centre and even our online media Changed Nigeria News for deeming it necessary to choose Keme Balogun Junior Secondary School, Ibeshe, ikorodu, Lagos state as their point of call to celebrate this year International Menstrual Hygiene Day.
By: Iyanda Sodiq
08102848105
0 comments:
Post a Comment