Menstrual Hygiene Campaign Project

Summary

Declared in 2015 at a high level United Nations General Assembly meeting after the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) expired was the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which is a global blueprint for peace and prosperity. These goals recognize that ending poverty, promoting access to quality healthcare and education including other deprivations must correlate with strategies that spur economic growth.

Since the declaration, Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), government and Individuals at local and regional levels have been embarking on various initiatives, in line with their vision to meet the 179 targets of the SDGs. Hope Restoration Network (HRN) Ghana as part of its social responsibility to promoting healthcare as one of its key areas of focus by paying distinctive attention to the needs of the less privileged in society, especially women and girls as spelt out in target 6.2. SDG 6, has been spearheading menstrual hygiene campaign since 2019 with the goal of “Empowering Girls through Menstrual Hygiene.

On August 20^th 2022, HRN embarked on a five months campaign project in Kpedze Anoe following the adoption of the community to support the school going girls to remain in school by providing access to free distribution of sanitary products and education on menstrual hygiene management.

Our mission

Our mission is to restore hope to deprived groups and individual to become an agent of change in their own socio-economic development.

Our vision

Our vision is to have a society in the forceable where every community will have good standard of education, good standard of living and a healthy environment

About Hope Restoration Network

Hope Restoration Network is a non-government support organization attending to troubled youths.

Located in the beautiful city of New South Wales, Australia. It was founded in 2012 in Ghana, West Africa and extended it's activities in Australia in 2018.

We are youth fans, and mentors who believe today's guided youth is tomorrow's leader.

It was birthed from a burning desire to provide a structural support system for troubled youths so they can unveil and align with the hidden potential inherent in every youth.

We thrive in the affirming whispers of possibilities where the imaginative powers of the mind serve as fuel and refuge to youngsters.

Project Catchment Location

The project catchment area was Kpedze-Anoe, a community in the Ho-West Constituency of Volta Region. The aforesaid community has a population of about a total number of 1741 of which Adults above 18 years are 768 and those below the age of 18 are about 973. This is a growing community with their main major occupation being farming. The community practices a subsistent farming system therefore making it difficult for them to provide for themselves and their families.

Project Goal

The primary aim of the campaign is to create a sustainable solutions, improving access to sanitation services, facilitating and addressing the information needs of women and girls on menstrual hygiene and women's health and the safe disposal of menstrual waste.

Objective of the Project:

The project was designed to:

1. Build an enabling environment so that the girls feel supported and comforted in schools during their menstrual cycle;
2. Increase the capacity of selected schools to effectively manage and sustain menstrual hygiene and sanitation practices;
3. Increase awareness on proper hygiene and sanitation practices among girls to enable them to cope up with taboos, myths and misconception;

Impact of the project

• 250 school girls received support through proper knowledge, awareness and education on menstruation and related hygiene practices;
• Kpedze Anoe community school was supported with free distribution of sanitary products for the period of four months to keep girls in school during their menstrual period.
• 150 out of school going girls in the community was supported equally with awareness and education on menstrual hygiene practices and benefitted from the distribution of the sanitary products.
• 15 local teachers were trained to sustain the campaign in the community school.
• 25 parents and adults in the community were trained to sustain the campaign in the community.

Some of the measurable indicators of the project were:

• Creation of Change Agents within the school and community to enable them to take forward the initiative by spreading awareness and ownership among other students and out of school students by sustaining the intervention which was intended to reach out to the larger community through family and peer groups on issues relating to safe menstrual hygiene behavior.
• Improve menstrual hygiene through better personalhygiene,theuse of disposable low cost sanitary pad and the proper disposal of sanitary pads. Strengthen behavior change in hygiene practices such as hand washing after defecation and the disposal of waste in bins.
• Increased school attendance among targeted girls supported by this project.
• Reducing the stigma and isolation of girls and breaking the silence and taboos associated with menstruationof targeted students.

FACILITATOR'S INDEX

To raise awareness among students, menstrual hygiene management sessions were conducted for the girls on hygiene (personal and school with environmental hygiene); the science behind menstruation; related taboos, myths and misconception; and how to manage menstruation hygienically. Pre and post assessment sessions were also conducted to assess the impact of MHM intervention among students; the components of the discussion covered:

SESSION ONE

DESCRIPTION: In this session, facilitator's took participants through basic growth in girls.

Participants were asked to:

1. Identify the common growth in girls.
2. Identify the hormones responsible for these changes.

SESSION TWO

DESCRIPTION: This session focuses on menstrual practices and addressed the following questions:

1. What is menarche?
2. Participants were asked where they experienced menarche.
3. Their preparedness towards menstruation was discussed.

SESSION THREE

DESCRIPTION: Participants were taught how to use sanitary pads and better menstrual practices.

1. Various menstrual products were identified and how there are used.
2. Participants were asked to name the kind of menstrual products they use.
3. Participants were asked to demonstrate the use of sanitary pad/towel.
4. Facilitators corrected all errors.
5. Facilitators demonstrated the use of a sanitary pad to the participants.

SWOTanalysisofthe menstrual hygiene project

Financial Analysis

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