A couple of weeks ago Jess invited me to a march. It was to raise awareness and end the taboo on talking about menstraution. Especially for school age girls.
Many girls in developing countries miss school when on their period. This is most often because of a lack of access to sanitary pads or facilities to change them while at school. Because of missing school 3 or 4 or more days a month, many girls drop out and do not finish secondary education.
So we joined about 150 people, school girls and some school boys, teachers both male and female, and other various people- mostly Rwandan- to march in bright red shirts through the city.
It was a succesful day.
When we left the rally at the end I was still wearing my bright shirt with kinyrwanda writing that said something about ending the silence on menstraution. We walked into a pharmacy and the pharmacist asked what it was about so we explained. He was surprised girls miss school so often and asked his assistant if she ever had. Her response: of course. His look of surprise was even greater.
Nice the we brought awareness to at least one person.
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