Nothing to be ashamed about it. Period.
Today, NGOs in the city are endeavouring to break the silence around menstruation. Taboos around this phenomenon are many, and some social groups are initiating online campaigns and even organising rallies in the Capital to raise awareness.
Head to Connaught Place for an awareness march, between 6.30am to 8.30am today. “The rally is being organised in the collaboration with the Delhi Government. We are expecting a turnout of 4000 people. Students have also been invited to participate,” says Leher Sethi, secretary, Indian Council for Human Relation.
“Menstruation should no longer be a topic confined to remote corners of the house. We aim to educate every girl to move from anxiety to confidence about periods,” says Dr Arun Gupta, co-founder, Sachi Saheli, the NGO that organised National Menstrual Summit on May 22.
#That’smydate, another initiative, will also be part of this rally. The campaign invites women to share their next date of period, by posting their pictures on their social media accounts. To engage more people, street plays, flash mob, human chain formation and on the spot painting are also organised. Richa Singh from Breakthrough, an NGO that has organised an online campaign on it, says, “We will share statistics and videos addressing the issue of stigma on menstrual hygiene on social media. It’s important that there’s dialogue between parents and daughters on menstruation.” Do you remember #LahuKaLaagan, a campaign by She Says that went viral on social media for making sanitary pads tax free? They’ve gone a step forward and planned to file a court case to ask for tax removal from sanitary pads, informs Krutika Pursnani from She Says.