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Adolescents are The community resource When we conducted
curious by nature. From persons trained by us, our first baseline
our experience, just play an important role in study in this region
providing them a safe outreach to young girls to gauge MHM
space to ask and receive and women. For sensitive awareness, the results
the right information topics such as MHM, it were disappointing.
related to their queries is advisable to rely on Convincing the
can help the MHM community ownership for conservative members
agenda manifold.” best results. People feel was challenging at
comfortable approaching first. However, most
— Pallavi Gautam,
Uttar Pradesh one of their own.” members come around
— Shaktiprava Maharana, once the benefits
Gujarat become obvious.
At their core, most
people care for their
community and are
willing to change for the
Our holistic approach helped better.”
in demonstrating societal level
impact, wherein adolescent boys — Supriya Saidane,
and male members are sensitised Nandurbar, Maharashtra
and educated about menstruation
and related information. The
feather on our cap is our strong
partnership with the local
government departments,
through which we are engaging with ASHA and
Anganwadi workers inorder to amplify positive
behavioural changes amongst the communities.”
— Ketan Hingu, Gujarat
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