Happy Menstrual Hygiene Day 2022 - Making Menstruation a normal fact of life by 2030. By Sofonie Dala

 This year's theme is: Making Menstruation a normal fact of life by 2030

To create awareness about menstruation, provide safe and hygienic practices to girls, and burst the bubble of taboo, World Menstrual Hygiene Day is celebrated on May 28 all over the world. 

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Today, millions of women and girls* around the world are stigmatised, excluded and discriminated against simply because they menstruate.

We advocate for behavioural change to reduce earth vulnerability to climate change and global warming from disposable sanitary pads. Work on women liberation against harmful restrictions surrounding  menstruation. 

We mobilise women to switch back to the use of reusable sanitary pads and napkins than disposable sanitary pads that have local ecosystem vulnerable to climate change and global warming.

According to UNFPA, May 28 signifies the menstrual cycle of females. As a fertility cycle lasts for 28 days, the date is selected to be 28. In the same way, an average period lasts for five days, which gives us the fifth month of the day, May. Therefore, to give it a meaning in itself, May 28 is celebrated to mark the change that occurs in a female body.

*We believe that  girls are also powerful agents of change.We work all year round to:

- Break the taboos and end the stigma surrounding menstruation,

- Raise awareness about the challenges regarding access to menstrual products,

- Mobilise the funding required for action at scale.