By Nisha Kumari | Project Officer
Dear Friends,
Greetings from the Indian Dreams Foundation!
It is our pleasure to share the report on our project, SMILEY DAYS, dedicated to educating, empowering, & aware adolescent girls and women of their menstrual health and hygiene issues. Under the project, we target school girls from age 11 years onwards and communities’ girls & women who are not enrolled in any schools.
The project team is rigorously working to spread knowledge on Menstrual hygiene management (MHM) through awareness workshops, health camps, individual counselling, focus group meetings & provide them free menstrual kits that include sanitary pads, vaginal wash, panty etc.
Moreover, we have formed SMILEY GIRLS GROUPS in the schools that work to bridge the gap between the IDF team & school girls and regularly provide updates on girls’ health issues. We have also trained a few school teachers for MHM. Recently, we have organised an awareness workshop at an open area of the slum named Gopal Pura, WARD NO -2, Agra district, to target slum’s women and girls. We have chosen open space for making them realise that menstruation is not a topic of shame & disgust, even not a topic to discuss in the surrounding or closed rooms.
However, menstruation is a matter of Pride, Dignity and Sign of good health. The workshop was interactive. Girls & women were directly interacted with the team & discussed their problems.
During the interaction, various issues related to menstruation (including proper menstruation hygiene management, using cloth during periods, following healthy habits, the importance of a nutritional diet, etc.) were discussed. More than 130 girls & women participated & received free sanitary pads.
This time we have extended our project to deliver information & knowledge on sexual reproductive health rights to the young women of the slums. The IDF team surveys the “Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights” of the slums’ women and married girls in the Agra district. The team has done surveyed approx. Six hundred fifty girls & women from ten slums so far. Our target is to study about 1000 girls & women by the mid of July 2018. Thank you, everyone, for your support & well – wishes. To contribute to help us for the cause that can change the lives of underprivileged girls and women. Warm Regards, Indian Dreams Foundation
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