Project Time
2024 - 2025
Category
Health, Environment
Location
Khagrachari
Target People
Adolescent Girls
2024 - 2025
Health, Environment
Khagrachari
Adolescent Girls
The ‘Breaking the Silence’ project aims to raise awareness about menstrual health and hygiene among marginalized adolescent girls in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. This includes conducting seminars, establishing menstrual hygiene corners in schools for low-cost sanitary pad access, and surveying to assess current menstrual health practices and perceptions.
Interactive educational seminars are conducted in schools to raise awareness about menstrual health and hygiene. These sessions are designed to address myths, taboos, and misconceptions associated with menstruation, ensuring students gain accurate information in a supportive environment.
Content:
Interactive Component:
After the presentation, a Q&A session allows students to anonymously ask questions and share their concerns, creating an open dialogue and building confidence.
Impact:
These sessions aim to normalize discussions around menstruation, empower students with knowledge, and improve overall menstrual health practices.
A quiz competition is organized to raise awareness about menstrual hygiene practices and the importance of maintaining menstrual health. This activity emphasizes learning through engagement and creates excitement among students.
Quiz Focus Area
Prizes
Winners of the quiz receive prizes such as school supplies or hygiene kits to encourage active participation and learning.
Impact
This program promotes menstrual hygiene awareness, reinforcing preventive health behaviors among students.
Specially designated areas called "Menstrual Health Protection Corners" are set up in schools to provide access to menstrual hygiene products. These corners are intended to be a safe and private space where girls can purchase sanitary pads at a subsidized rate.
Implementation Steps:
Features:
Impact:
These corners help reduce barriers to menstrual hygiene by ensuring privacy, affordability, and convenience. They also encourage students to adopt better hygiene practices by making sanitary products readily available.
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School Name | Date | Activity Type | Supplies Provided | Feedback/Outcomes |
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Khagrachari Noy Mile Junior High School | May 25, 2024 | Seminar on Menstrual Health | 80 Pads | Girls showed high interest; teachers requested future sessions |
Munigram High School | July 4, 2024 | Seminar on Menstrual Health | - | Girls showed high interest |
Munigram High School | July 5, 2024 | Menstrual Hygiene Corner Setup | Initial stock of 192 pads | Positive response; teachers noted increased awareness among students |
Munigram High School | September 1, 2024 | Sanitary Pad Supply | 192 pads | Increased demand noted; family attitudes remain mixed but improving |
Munigram High School | November 14, 2024 | Sanitary Pad Supply | 180 pads | Increased demand noted; Highly Positive Response |
Primarily funded by the Save a Smile Foundation with additional support through one-time donations from well-wishers.
Item | Description | Unit Cost (BDT) | Quantity | Total Cost (BDT) |
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Sanitary Pads | Cost per pad | 3 | 1000 | 3,000 |
Seminar Materials | Printed brochures, posters | - | - | 3,000 |
Transportation | Travel costs for team | - | - | 5,000 |
Menstrual Hygiene Corner | Set up per school | 2,000 | 5 | 10,000 |
Miscellaneous | Additional costs | - | - | 5,000 |
Total Estimated Cost | 26,000 BDT |