Menstrual Hygiene Day was a success in Eldorado Park
: Over fifty girls in need received toiletry packs at the Menstrual Hygiene Day event.
Menstrual Hygiene Day was on May 28, a day meant to raise awareness of menstrual health throughout the world. Non-profit organisations such as the Lady in Pink Foundation and MB
Foundation teamed up to bring awareness of the day to girls in the Eldorado Park and surrounding areas.
The event took place Friday afternoon at a park many know as ‘Mahonie Park’.
Gazelle Booysen from the Lady in Pink Foundation said:
“We are having a menstrual hygiene awareness day. We have assessed fifty households and the need for sanitary packs is high. We made toiletry gift packs for the girls who are in need. The packs consist of a pack of pads, pantiliners, lotion, soap, toothpaste, roll-on, a toothbrush, washrag. We hope to get donations of sanitiser, we did get a donation from Standard Bank who gave us masks for the girls.”
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Speakers at the event were: Kubeshni Govender, Raylene Martin, Lorna de Villiers, and Andrea Buhr who addressed the fifty beneficiaries as well as girls who just stopped at the event to get more information. The two organisations made a few extra sanitary packs for girls who were present at the event and in need of a toiletry bag with essentials in.
De Villiers spoke about the many masks that people put on every day, not the physical masks we wear but the masks that people hide under. She spoke on depression and Premenstrual syndrome (PMS), changes that happen when girls start their period.
The speaker shared some light on the importance of eating healthy, speaking about how you feel, the importance of changing your pad so that you do not get an infection, she said that you can wear a pad for six hours at most and then you need to change it, this also depends on your flow. De Villiers also taught the girls the importance of wrapping and throwing the used pad away, she made an example of using newspaper to wrap the pad in and lastly spoke on the importance of washing the outside of the vagina correctly.
Martin encouraged the girls to keep with the ‘girl code’ and she demonstrated how one puts a pad onto the underwear the correct way.
The Lady in Pink Foundation would like to thank: MB Foundation, Zac and Kubeshni Govender from Connected Humanity, Raylene Martin from Operation Hope Child, Andrea Buhr from Her Smile, Lorna de Villiers from Woman of Word, Girl Gang, Ignite, Mahalia Feeding Scheme, Debbie and Whitney, Naeema Isaacs, Shona Photography, Sowhat Photography, and Sizwe Feeding Scheme.
After the programme was completed, the girls were given some muffins and popcorn to enjoy.
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