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Welcome to Bright Light Projects month of May 2023 newsletter,
Menstruation shaming amongst other challenges like lack of menstrual education and resources relates directly to gender inequality. Period poverty in rural communities is one of the most important challenges when it comes to sexual and reproductive rights for adolescent girls.
Girls continue to suffer from menstrual stigmatization because we do not have enough education to support them as they transition through ‘Body changes’ in their adolescent years.
As we celebrate Menstrual Hygiene Day Sunday May 28, 2023, Bright Light Projects under its flagship program titled Adolescent Youth Leadership and Mentorship is organizing workshops in Cameroon and Sierra Leone to facilitate education and understanding on this year’s theme “ Making Menstruation a normal fact of life by 2030”
In March, 2022, Bright Light Projects Sierra Leone officially Launched Adolescent Youth Leadership and Mentorship Program (AYLM) with a focus on providing Leadership and Mentorship, Sexual and reproductive Rights, Hygiene, including Career orientation for adolescent Youths in Junior and Senior Secondary Schools in the northern Province in Bombali District under the theme: Empower, Educate, and Energize.
In Cameroon BLP is partnering with Royalty World, Civitas Cameroon, Women Empowerment Centre in Buea, and more. In Sierra Leone, BLP is spearheading a workshop alongside other partners like Rainbo Initiative, REAL-SL, Community of Practice, Children’s Forum Network, Girls Connect (GC-SL), Ramatu Foundation for Girls and Women Empowerment, Ministry of Gender & Children’s Affair, Ministry of Health and Sanitation, and more.
Your support will go a long way in helping parents, Girls and Boys, stakeholders in rural communities understand Menstrual Health benefits including sexual and reproductive rights.
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