03/06/2023
Normalizing Periods is important throughout the world to end the sufferings that every girl out there suffers just because they cannot share their problems openly. It's 2023 and the entire world is growing in terms of technology, education, economy Gender equality, and many more, it still lags when it comes to Menstruation. Periods are still a taboo in about 60% of the world population, leading to Period-poverty, unhygienically maintenance of Periods, and severe diseases. It's high time that we need to stop this but I alone cannot change the world hence decided to conduct a community service project on "Let's Normalize Periods" in my community successfully I with my team conducted a four-day workshop on which we focussed on reaching to more and more people in my community to talk about this issue and also trained 20 young participants to further spread this topic. We successfully garner 100 audiences to talk about this topic and share their views on Periods, distributed 100 pamphlets containing information about menstruation, and also educated about 300 students (both boys and girls) about menstruation. We also taught 30 women in the society not to make this topic taboo and normalize it since it's very normal and as a result, they promised to further teach their daughters and sons to not stigmatize it. And finally, we hosted the closing ceremony of the entire workshop on the special occasion of National Menstrual Hygiene Day and I am very proud to state that this was the first time in my community that this day was being celebrated recruiting 50 families and with such a large number of audience