Child Sexual Abuse: Workshop themes-

For Children:

Help children to identify between Good, Bad and Accidental touch.

Help them come up with their own ideas of escaping from a certain situation

Focusing on statements like ‘MY body belongs to ME’ and ‘It is not MY fault’

For Parents and Teachers:

Dealing with their ward’s story of sexual abuse through role plays.

Helping them talk to children about their private parts and about Child Sexual Abuse.

Taboos and Myths surrounding menstruation (e.g. restrictions on entering the kitchen or temple, preparing certain foods, touching other people). 

Which make it difficult for Girls and Women to See menstruation as a natural phenomenon and talk about it. 

The problem that we have to trying to work out towards a positive atmosphere is

70% of mothers consider menstruation 'dirty', perpetuating a culture of shame and ignorance.

8% of menstruating women in India use home-grown alternatives like old fabric, rags, sand, ash, wood shavings, newspapers, dried leaves, hay, and plastic.

63 million adolescent girls live in homes without toilet facilities.

Girls are typically absent for 20% of the school year due to menstruation, which is the second major reason, after household work, for girls to miss school.

70% increase in incidence of reproductive tract infections owing to poor menstrual hygiene.

What we do?

We can -

We conduct discussion and activity based workshops on Menstrual Hygiene Management with an aim to break the silence around Menstruation.

Target Groups-

Pre teens, preparing them for menstruation.

Educating young girls and women about Menstruation, flow management and related practices.

Helping young men to understand menstruation and be empathetic and supportive of menstruating women.

Workshop Structure- 

We conduct sessions at a minimal cost for mainstream individuals and free of cost sessions for children from lower income backgrounds / economically weaker sections.

Pad Distribution- After educating them on the use and maintenance of the pads, there must be a pad distribution with underprivileged adolescent beneficiaries at the end of the session.

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