“There are many candidates for the title of “last taboo”, but in 2013, menstruation has one of the strongest claims on it. The power of this taboo has meant that even in the field of WASH, menstruation has remained imprisoned by silence, stigma and neglect. This is baffling when two million girls and women worldwide are of menstruating age. On any given day, 300 million women and girls will be menstruating , and, in total, most women in the world will spend 3,500 days of their lives bleeding. The majority of those women and girls will have no access to clean and safe sanitary products , nor to a private space in which to wash. Menstruation is supposed to be invisible and silent, and sometimes, menstruating women and girls are supposed to be invisible and silent too. Plenty are kept physically isolated during their periods, or culturally isolated by edicts and restriction”. Jara sochiye.
SOURCE: http//www.wsscc.org
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