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Menstrual Hygiene For the Slums Girls

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ASMITA conducted a baseline survey in the month of January 2022 in ten slums of Varanasi city concerning health issues focusing on adolescent girls. We had a random survey of 15 adolescent girls from each slum. Out of the 150 adolescent girls surveyed 78% the girls said that they lack knowledge of menstrual period protections and practiced unhygienic methods to safeguard the situation (using unhygienic clothes instead of sanitary pads). Most of them are unaware of their menstrual health conditions. There are 71% of adolescent girls in India remain unaware of menstruation till menarche. Only 2 to 3 percent of women in rural India are estimated to use sanitary napkins. This results in women resorting to unhygienic practices during their menstrual cycle, such as filling up old socks with sand and tying them around their waists to absorb menstrual blood, or taking up old pieces of cloth and using them to absorb blood. The condition in the slums is much worse. None of them have a steady flow of income. They mainly depend upon rag picking, scavenging, and sweeping the roads or pedestal selling of goods. What we can do to help these girls We have decided to address the issue in the following manner. 1. Awareness creation among young adolescent girls regarding menstruation, hygiene, and use of sanitary pads. 2. Ensuring that the girls use sanitary pads during periods. 3. Involve the family to pay attention to the factor of menstrual hygiene so that parents can help children. Our intention is by end of 2022, 85 percent of adolescent girl's start using sanitary pads. We need 200 pads a month to support the girls and conduct awareness sessions with girls and boys in the schools
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ASMITA stands for Association for the Socially Marginalized's Integrated Therapeutic Action. It is a registered charitable trust founded by Fr. Dilraj IMS in 1998 at Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh.

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