The inspiration of this blog is my mother. But because of the society we will live in my mother asked me not to write anything about it. Ironical. But then it's not her fault, it's the mentality and mindset of our society.
While you are going to read this blog, I know there would be people judging me or making fun of me. But I think That's ok because someone has to speak.
Being a girl is not easy job specially when you enter your puberty. Your body starts changing, your voice changes and the most difficult part you start getting your menstruation periods. The first time any girl faces it, is difficult because it's new. I being a girl from a family where my mother was very communicative, that period was made little easy for me. My mother helped me a lot to pass that phase and to adapt the change. But I wonder about the girls who lives in slum area where there is not any proper awareness, where they don't know how to manage, where they don't know what to use in those 5 days, where no one guided them about this natural phenomena. Those girls who don't have anything to eat, who are begging for one time food, do you think those girls have enough money to use hygienic sanitary napkins. Do you think they are even aware about such products. We have organisation donating food, getting health check up done for them, trying to get them good cloths. Has anyone even thought about this area, about this crisis prevailing in lower area. Maybe you did but you don't want to talk about it. Because this natural process is such a taboo in our society. Talking about menstruations or sex is such big crime here. There would be voices coming out from somewhere "kesi batmeej hai" as soon as they hear such words.
Anshu Gupta a man who tried break all the trivial norms and rules of our society by founding An organisation named goonj which works for those girls by awaring them and providing them hygienic pads to use. while I was going through their experiences and data I was shocked to see, there are such girls who in the absence of sanitary napkins use sand, old clothes and rusk. It disturbed me from inside just because people don't want to talk about something this sensitive, an innocent girl of age 14 or less has to suffer to that extent. If by any chance we all were open minded and free like Anshu Gupta this problem would have eradicates soon.
Today I m trying to take an initiative against that taboo and for them. We know the problem, we know the cure point is to get vocal about it.
Soumya Tare
Hope productions
While you are going to read this blog, I know there would be people judging me or making fun of me. But I think That's ok because someone has to speak.
Being a girl is not easy job specially when you enter your puberty. Your body starts changing, your voice changes and the most difficult part you start getting your menstruation periods. The first time any girl faces it, is difficult because it's new. I being a girl from a family where my mother was very communicative, that period was made little easy for me. My mother helped me a lot to pass that phase and to adapt the change. But I wonder about the girls who lives in slum area where there is not any proper awareness, where they don't know how to manage, where they don't know what to use in those 5 days, where no one guided them about this natural phenomena. Those girls who don't have anything to eat, who are begging for one time food, do you think those girls have enough money to use hygienic sanitary napkins. Do you think they are even aware about such products. We have organisation donating food, getting health check up done for them, trying to get them good cloths. Has anyone even thought about this area, about this crisis prevailing in lower area. Maybe you did but you don't want to talk about it. Because this natural process is such a taboo in our society. Talking about menstruations or sex is such big crime here. There would be voices coming out from somewhere "kesi batmeej hai" as soon as they hear such words.
Anshu Gupta a man who tried break all the trivial norms and rules of our society by founding An organisation named goonj which works for those girls by awaring them and providing them hygienic pads to use. while I was going through their experiences and data I was shocked to see, there are such girls who in the absence of sanitary napkins use sand, old clothes and rusk. It disturbed me from inside just because people don't want to talk about something this sensitive, an innocent girl of age 14 or less has to suffer to that extent. If by any chance we all were open minded and free like Anshu Gupta this problem would have eradicates soon.
Today I m trying to take an initiative against that taboo and for them. We know the problem, we know the cure point is to get vocal about it.
Soumya Tare
Hope productions
