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Stakeholder voices
The Tata Trusts have done Due to the Tata Trusts’ Tata Trust’s Menstrual
very inspiring work in the MHM programme we Hygiene Management
field of Menstrual Hygiene have been able to make programme is a great
Management in the tribal adolescent girls aware initiative….it is helping
villages of Sirohi and Pali of their health and community members,
district. Village community, hygiene. By learning women and adolescent
especially tribal women and about safe Menstrual girls in understanding
adolescent girls, received Hygiene Management that menstruation is
training on stitching reusable practices, they will be a normal biological
cloth pads, thereby triggering better equipped to be process and also
behaviour of changing cognisant about their breaking the silence
sanitary products at least wellbeing, contribute to around myths and
three to four times a day the upliftment of their taboos which exist
during menstruation. The self, family and the since centuries.”
Tata Trusts has also actively community. Once they — Mukesh Kumar
supported the ‘Chuppi Todo’ experience the positive Sachan, Child
campaign of the Department change themselves, Development Project
of Women Empowerment, they are more willing Officer, ICDS – Gilaula,
Rajasthan, to eradicate to advocate it to their Shravasti, Uttar
the myths associated friends and family Pradesh
with menstruation. Many members.”
congratulations to the MHM — Ms Darshana Suthar,
team of the Tata Trusts Officer in Charge
for bringing change at the (Girls Education),
grassroot level.”
State Project Office,
— Ms Ankita Rajpurohit, Samagra Shiksha,
Assistant Director, Gandhinagar, Gujarat
Department of Women
Empowerment, Pali,
Rajasthan
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