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Young girls are often unaware of menstruation until menarche. At menarche they are met with fright and confusion and have so many questions but are unable to get answers from anywhere. They are given home fabrics or grass to manage menstruation and are made to believe in myths that have been going around since ages.
Young girls often fear leaks and to avoid embarrassment, stay home for 4-5 days every month. Many times they give up on their education due to increased absenteeism. Not only does it affect their education but also using unhygienic means to manage menstruation result in infections and illnesses.
Girls are restricted to a room, are not allowed to worship in temples and enter the kitchen. In some rural places, females are made to stay in mud houses for the length of their periods and are treated as untouchable. Due to lack of education and awareness they are unable to break free from these taboos.
Our projects would consist of menstrual health and hygiene awareness sessions in a chosen area/village/school or any place. Additionally we offer sponsors the opportunity for reusable pad distribution amongst the beneficiaries which would enable women to manage menstruation effectively and hygienically.
We sincerely thank AICL for their valuable support in making this impact possible.In our recent projects at Government Schools in Sahrul, Gurugram, Badsapur, and Kanya Vidhyalay in Dera Mandi village, as well as in collaboration with NGOs like SOSVA, YMCA, and Sewa Bharat, we distributed reusable sanitary pads and conducted awareness sessions on menstrual hygiene.
With the generous support of Fueladream, we successfully conducted 18 Menstrual Hygiene Awareness sessions across 15 government schools in Jaipur, Noida, Gurugram, Delhi, and Palwal.
With the support of Rotary Club Elite (Kapurthala), under the leadership of President and Co-Convener Dr. Sarabjeet Singh, Go Girl Foundation successfully implemented a menstrual health initiative across five schools in Punjab.
The initiative brought happiness and confidence to the girls and women, helping them understand the importance of safe and sustainable menstrual practices. We reached 6,201 women and girls through our MHA training sessions in the project funded by AICL (Ajay Industrial Corporation Limited). We covered these participants in 15 sessions.
The sessions were held at institutions such as GGSSS Palwal, Shaheed Bhagat Singh Inter College, Greater Noida, and GGSSS Ditavta in Jaipur, provided a platform for girls to engage actively, ask questions, and gain valuable insights into menstrual health and hygiene. Through this project, we empowered 22,874 girls with essential knowledge, fostering a deeper understanding of this critical aspect of their well-being.
We conducted five awareness sessions in each institution, reaching and empowering over 10,000 girls by providing them with reusable sanitary pads and creating safe spaces for open discussions to address their questions and concerns.
These sessions played a vital role in reducing menstrual taboos and encouraging girls to speak freely about their health.
This initiative builds on our earlier successful projects in Delhi NCR and Rajasthan, further strengthening our mission in Punjab and promoting sustainable menstrual health practices across India.
Some women were very happy to meet a gynaecologist for the very first time. They were taught about how they can maintain hygiene while working in farms. We encouraged them to live their lives confidently and tried to diminish the stigma around menstruation. They seemed to have been living in a world of myths and were very surprised to learn that what they had been taught by their families about menstruation was not true.
We thank Pavitrementhe, an exporter of organic products and essential oils and Dr. Bronner’s, offering cruelty and vegan soaps in Europe for their CSR initiative and giving us a chance to touch the lives of women in Bareilly. These women were extremely happy to receive a pack of reusable sanitary pads by ReliefPad and have given us positive feedback after using these pads.