Menstrual Hygiene Training

Menstrual hygiene management (MHM) or menstrual health and hygiene (MHH) refers to access to menstrual hygiene products such as reusable sanitary pads, underpants etc, to absorb or collect the flow of blood during menstruation privacy to change the materials, and access to facilities to dispose of used menstrual management materials.

The training on MHM also include the “broader systemic factors that link menstruation with health, well-being, gender equality, education, equity, empowerment, and rights”.

Menstrual hygiene management can be particularly challenging for girls and women in rural areas where clean water and toilet facilities are often inadequate.
Menstrual waste is largely ignored in schools in developing countries such as Tanzania, despite it being a significant problem.

Menstruation can be a barrier to education for many adolescent girls, as a lack of effective sanitary products restricts girls’ involvement in educational and social activities.

Comfy Care12 conduct Menstrual Health Management training to school girls and young women in rural communities in Tanzania, considered nine domains of menstrual health (awareness and understanding; stigma, norms, and socio-cultural practices; menstrual products; water and sanitation; disposal; empathy and support; clinical care; integration with other programmes; and financing) and intervenes the following five questions

What is the current situation?
What are the factors contributing to this situation?
What should the status of this domain of adolescent menstrual health be in the communities and school settings?
What actions are needed to overcome these challenges?

The Menstrual Health Management Training describes the state of adolescent menstrual health in low- and middle-income communities in Tanzanian and sets out suggestions for action that could contribute to meeting the holistic menstrual health needs of adolescent girls and women who menstruate worldwide, In collaboration with the local government authorities and schools management, we manages to conducts trainings to schools girls from class 4-7 in primary schools and from secondary to high school who are from the age of maturity

Dodoma School of Deaf , Dodoma region

Girls talk;
The total of 35 girls participated on the Menstrual health session, 3 female teachers (1 deaf teacher helping with translation. The interaction was quit challenging but the girls where asking questions and happy to share their stories. During the sessions, changes in adolescent girls during the first manice were elaborated including development of breasts, hairs in private parts, pimples, enlargement of hips among other things.

Kisasa primary school

Kisasa primary school adolescent girls after receiving the menstrual facilities

In the session, general knowledge of menstruation was presented by the comfycare12
facilitator. We discussed the good materials to be used during menstrual periods such as
hygienic reusable pads and disposable pads. The facilitator focused on reusable pads it was
amongst the objectives of the project.