Women from the Youth Education and Humanity of Liberia, in collaboration with WE4SELF, ENSURE, the Woman Empowerment Forum, POWER-Liberia, and Women Care Initiatives, are in an endeavor to ensure menstrual equity in Liberia and have launched a campaign to ensure sanitary pads become a public necessity in public institutions.
They recently celebrated another annual menstrual hygiene day with 200 students from five schools at the ELWA campus in Paynesville on Saturday, May 27, 2023.
They have been proactive in distributing menstrual sanitary pads to girls and institutions to institutionalize good menstrual hygiene for girls to retain them in school to avoid missing their lessons, tests, and exams because of their periods.
The global celebration of International World Menstrual Hygiene Day is an annual celebration held every year on May 28 to advocate and promote good menstrual health, raise awareness of the importance of girls’ reproductive health rights, and address the numerous challenges girls and women face during menstruation.
The day was initiated by the German-based NGO WASH United in 2013 and was observed for the first time in 2014. It brought together non-profit organizations, government agencies, individuals, the private sector, and the media to highlight the importance of breaking the silence on menstruation management and raise awareness for policymakers to make policies and laws to change negative social norms around menstruation that will increase the political priorities to catalyze action for menstrual hygiene materials for women and girls to access.
This year will mark the 14th anniversary of International World Menstrual Hygiene Day under the theme “Making Menstruation a Normal Fact of Life by 2030”.
