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Period Poverty: NGOs empower rural dwellers to change the narrative

On January 31, 20219:29 amIn Healthby Oboh

Dookwase must often make the hard choice between getting food for daily sustenance or hygienic sanitary pads for menstrual purposes. Her situation is pitiful as she must favour food over the ‘luxury’ of sanitary pads. Thus, she resorts to alternatives that are neither hygienic nor safe.

Putting a period on period poverty

On January 29, 20216:36 pmIn Healthby Oboh

“We have seen girls that got pregnant just to avoid worrying about menstrual products for 9 months.” That was Onyinye Edeh. Wunmi Yussuf is a civil servant in Lagos. Brenda Effiom is an entrepreneur based in Akwa Ibom State and Bolaji Margaret is an Abuja-based youth advocate, while, Faleye Ibrahim is an undergraduate at Lagos State University (LASU) and a photographer. The paths of these five persons may never cross. But the fire from something burning in their hearts lights the path for hundreds of girls and young women who cannot afford sanitary pads.