Training on Menstrual hygiene management and low cost sanitary pad preparation

In Pakistan, the subject of menstrual hygiene Managment is out of place at all levels of society from home to government, if we do not find any specific care on family level in majority of house hold for girls during menstruation on the other hand federal sanitation policy does not address MHM in specific manner.  Lady health workers, the basic unit in Pakistan, are not given any exclusive training on MHM by government. Branded sanitary pads are too expensive to afford by common women in result majority of them use unhygienic materials.

Keeping all this in view it has been strongly-willed to design trainings on menstrual hygiene management and introduce low cost sanitary pads that can be prepared and used easily without any financial hurdle by women of all ages, areas and social set ups to fulfill their needs. Objectives of the training are;

  1. To encourage low cost sanitation technologies in Pakistan,
  2. To generate acceptability in community for handmade sanitary materials,
  3. To include women from excluded community in a development process,
  4. To improve Menstrual hygiene practices in Pakistan especially in women of excluded communities and rural areas,

310 Wells & Latrines at household level.

SDC is working hard to rehabilitate sanitation situation in Khyber Pukhtunkhwa. 2011 has been a great success in achieving our targets, the year (2012) is not different either.

Following are the SDC Project Updates;

  1. well/latrine rehabilitation at household level: 310
  2. village selected for drainage improvement at district charsadda: sanda sarr
  3. assessment for rehabilitation of water supply schemes completed: 7 schemes

ED IRSP, & National Convenor Fansa Pakistan interview

ED IRSP, & National Convenor Fansa Pakistan Syed Shah Nasir Khisro interview in daily Express.

A Story of Sana & Kalsoom for Menstrual Hygiene Promotion

Menstruation, a natural process in women’s life needs special care from physical and psychological point of view. Negligence in menstrual hygiene can result in biological disorders for example different sorts of infections but unfortunately awareness concerning this area of life is not highlighted due to socio- cultural trends of our society. Menstrual hygiene promotion is an indirect support to gender equality, national development, high literacy rate and MDGs accomplishment.

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