Anitha Rao: Busting taboos one period at a time
10 months, 4 weeks ago

Anitha Rao: Busting taboos one period at a time

New Indian Express  

BENGALURU: If Covid has taught us anything, it is hygiene and the relentless effort one must take to prevent viruses and infections. With a mission to create awareness around menstruation, address the taboos and encourage basic hygiene practices, Anitha Rao, a 40-yr-old social entrepreneur and activist, embarked on a journey about a decade ago. On my visit, I saw that women lacked basic hygiene and had no information on menstruation and many deemed it to be unlucky,” Anitha told TNSE. She added that in India, about 355 million women and girls menstruate every month, however only 36 per cent of them know “why it happens, where it happens, and why it’s crucial to have a healthy body”. In 2019, she officially registered the Sakriya Charitable Trust, which conducts menstrual hygiene sessions for underprivileged women.

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Petition for change. Period.
1 year, 2 months ago

Petition for change. Period.

New Indian Express  

CHENNAI: In April and May of 2023, IT professional Punitha P traversed rocky, half-laid roads and dense jungles to reach the hamlets of Tiruvannamalai’s Jawadhu Hills. Interacting with 7th and 8th standard students from Adivasi communities, Punitha, who hails from Erode, found a basic dearth of necessities, from no school washrooms, pipelines with no water connection or motors, and a …

Spreading Menstrual Hygiene Awareness at Grassroots Level
1 year, 9 months ago

Spreading Menstrual Hygiene Awareness at Grassroots Level

Deccan Chronicle  

To this day, I remember as a young girl how I used to enjoy watching the little pieces of cloth hanging outside my house-helps’ quarters on the terrace swaying in the wind and then predicting the direction they would sway in next. Hearing these gruesome stories and noticing the women teach their daughters the same things they had learnt about …

Menstrual health is a public health issue
1 year, 10 months ago

Menstrual health is a public health issue

The Hindu  

In a recent incident, a man from a city in Maharashtra allegedly killed his 12-year-old sister because he mistook period stains on her clothes as a sign of a sexual relationship. In urban India, girls and women navigate a good part of their life in the public domain — a young working woman travels for hours by public transport, a …

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