Celebration of Women’s Day to break the “menstrual taboo”

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Celebration of women's day in one of the Blue Schools in Dailkeh District is noteworthy. The day was celebrated in school with open and wide discussion on Menstrual Hygiene Management. The long interaction and elocution competition on menstrual hygiene helped breaking, to some extent, the social ill belief of menstruation as silent and untouchable issue.

The discussion on importance of menstrual hygiene management in a public event among teachers, students, parents and health professional provided opportunity to share the issue as a natural phenomenon that occur to female and that is no impure routine as considered in the remote rural parts of the country. Commitments to eradicate the misconception, of forcing female to stay in a separate and unsafe huts during their periods and perceiving their periods as impure and untouchable periods, was acquired. The open discussion on such a deep rooted (in some remote parts of the country) communal misbelief in public place has a tremendous positive social impact.