Capacity Building

Conduct school sensitization to increase awareness on the relevance of good menstrual hygiene management and Support school management in piloting training lessons on local production of sanitary pads

Awareness Session

ICEF will offer direct in-kind support to schools and selected girls, train them in menstrual hygiene and sanitation practices and encourage the replication of acquired knowledge at household levels

Create Health Volunteers

With the help of experts, create the trainers or the facilitators in every village who can guide the girls on the MHM in absence of the support from ICEF

We are working with School,Colleges, Rural and Semi Urban areas to create awareness on MHM

Menstruation is an integral and normal part ofhuman life, indeed of human existence, andmenstrual hygiene is fundamental to the dignityand wellbeing of women and girls and animportant part of the basic hygiene, sanitationand reproductive health services to which everywoman and girl has a right.

Globally, approximately 52% of the femalepopulation (26% of the total population) is ofreproductive age. Most of these women and girlswill menstruate each month for between two andseven days.The subject of menstruation however, is too oftentaboo, and has many negative cultural attitudes associated with it, including the idea that menstruating women and girls are“contaminated”, “dirty” and “impure”.

Women and girls in rural setting and in particulargirls in schools suffer most from stigma and lackof services and facilities to help them cope withthe physical and psychological pains theyundergo during their menstrual periodsPROJECT

Inadequate preparations for the young girls not yet experiencing menstrual hygiene, lack of or inadequate water to clean and wash thebody, lack of materials managing menstrual hygiene, private space and wash rooms and inappropriate facilities for disposal of materials for those who have used pads.

In spite of these issues, menstrual hygiene has been routinely ignored by professionals in the water, health and education sectors.

Currently the means of copying for girl students is the use of old cloth, dirty napkins and otherun-hygiene materials. Some schools have provided pads ranging from sophisticated imported pads to locally manufactured pads.

INDUS CORE EDUCATION FOUNDATION (ICEF) proposes this project to respond to the needs of building capacity of schools and teachers in improving and upholding menstrual hygiene and sanitation girls in primary schools across Maharashtra, Gujrat and Karnataka in Rural as well as Tribal areas.

ICEF will offer direct in-kind support to schools and selected girls, train them in menstrual hygiene and sanitation practices and encourage the replication of acquired knowledge at household levels. At the same time focus on increasing awareness and capacity of young girls to deal with menstrual hygiene

Currently all the programs are done with the volunteering and the individual contribution. No agency has been participated in this project, as we are reaching out to the funding institution to contribute to this cause

We bring together new paradigms that fully exploit modern technology and incorporate anticipated developments

We shall establish collaborations with local hospitals to facilitate the next higher level of health care

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