Odion Ikyo
Social WorkerNulla totam rem metus nunc hendrerit ex voluptatum deleniti laboris, assumenda suspendisse, maecenas malesuada morbi a voluptate massa! Hendrerit, egestas.
Nulla totam rem metus nunc hendrerit ex voluptatum deleniti laboris, assumenda suspendisse, maecenas malesuada morbi a voluptate massa! Hendrerit, egestas.
It’s about health. It’s about helping girls
everywhere to manage menstruation in a way that doesn’t put them at risk of infections that are at best avoidable. More
specifically, it’s about reproductive health, and keeping girls healthy through
puberty so that they have a greater chance of surviving childbirth, and so that their future babies are born healthy. Fundamentally, it is also about keeping girls safe from early and unwanted pregnancy by making sure that they have access to information that helps them understand the connection between menstruation and fertility.
In Nigeria, especially in the rural areas, it’s about girl’s education. It’s about going to school each month while they have their periods, when they didn’t before. It’s about staying in school, rather than dropping out, when they reach menarche. It’s about ensuring a generation and future generations of educated and empowered women who had the tools to overcome cultural taboo about menstruation, and made the choice to go to school. And more than that, it’s about an equitable chance at well-being for girls everywhere. It’s about girls being able to live their lives without fear of stigma or shame one week out of every month and then every day after. It’s about girls not being made to feel inferior, impure, disgusting, or unworthy – and ensuring that they grow up proud, confident, strong women that help lead their communities. In most developed societies like the US, there are various menstruation absorbents and disposal choices for women and girls from the use of tampons to sterile pads. It changes everything for a girl that she has access to cheap, safe, undetectable methods for catching blood flow every month. But the reality in most low income communities even within Plateau state is that thousands of girls still struggle to manage menstruation and overcoming this struggle is essential to health, education, and well-being. There’s a wide hygiene gap between girls who attend private schools to girls who attend public schools. Women and girls who live in low income communities and internally displaced camps also experience hygiene education and management deficiencies. We provide trainings on hygiene education and management to these vulnerable groups. We also teach them to produce hygienic products and reusable pads to curb period poverty. One of the main focus of HHH campaign is to advocate for WASH for girls in public schools and women in low income communities and IDP camps.
In May 2017, in partnership with Primary Healthcare Board Kaduna, TAAF took Her Hygiene & Her Campaign to Maranba Rido kaduna where we gave more that 1000 young girls from 3 government schools hygiene education training and management and also gave them hygiene packs including TAAF reusable pads to curb period poverty
In July 2018, we continued our Hygiene campaign to girls in Stella Marris Secondary school Abuja. We also had community activities supporting women and girls in low income communities with hygiene products and information.
In August 2019, we set up the TAAF bank at area 1 IDP camp. In 2020 during COVID we raised awareness among women in IDP camps and provided with relief materials