Meet Keerthi, Aryan, Gowri and Srishti (Grade 9th)
Team Code Red, All Rounded Performance Award Winner
Keerthi, Aryan, Gowri and Srishti, 14-years old students, learnt girls from low-economic background do not have basic knowledge about Menstruation. This lack of knowledge and poor sanitary practices often affects their school attendance, performance and even health!
They began ideating on how they can solve this problem and came up with a few ideas. While discussing their ideas with their mentors, they realised they lacked an understanding of the problem. Hence, decided to first go to a government school and learn about the practices currently followed by the girls. And this helped! They learnt that the girls were given Sanitary Napkins by the government but did not know how to use the pad or how to track their cycles.
On the basis of their interactions with the girls, they designed an informative workshop to educate the girls. Once they were prepared, they went back to the schools and started conducting the sessions. They started the sessions by showing the girls an animated movie that explained everything about menstruation in detail. After this, they did a live demonstration to show how to use a sanitary napkin. Towards the end of the session, they gave each girl a Menstrual Hygiene Kit consisting of information pamphlets, calendar to track their cycles and a hot water bottle to reduce their pain during cramps. The cost of these kits came out to Rs. 7,200 in total, which they fundraised from their neighbours.
In a period of 4 months, they have conducted 12 workshops in over 8 government schools and orphanages. Through this, they have impacted over 500 girls.
In a survey they conducted, 92% of the girls reported that the sessions were ‘very helpful’. They are now expanding their initiative to educate more and more girls.
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