overcome the challenges of
in india
NoĂŤlline demeilliers
Hello!
1
Between menarche and menopause I will experience menstruation. 12,4 years old
51 years old
28 1
2
3
4 5 6 7 8
Every 28 days i will start menstruating
so, tODAY, around 334 million Women are menstruating.
When I menstruate I lose around 35 ml of blood...
in a lifetime around 16 l or 32 bottles of tomato sauce
To manage this flow
Tampons
Disposable pads
I have different options
Reusable pads
Menstrual cup
Come on guys! Let's destroy their vagina!
the industry of pads adds chemicals and bleach linked to many health and environmental problems
Each conventional pad contains the equivalent of
4 plastic bags
Now, you have to wash! Mouhahahaha!
But Reusable pads have their
disadvantages as well....
Tampons: Unhealthy Polluting Expensive Can be wear up to 6 hours risk of toxic shock syndrom
Tampon v
Menstrual cup: doesn't content chemicals reusable 10 y economical Can be wear up to 12 hours doesn't leak
vs. menstrual cup Credit: Love your vagina production, mooncup.co.uk
ash
or sand
more than 300 million women can't afford sanitary pads in india
"nOW i AM HAVING A TITLE LIKE THE FIRST MAN TO SET FOOT ON THE MOON: «Muruganantham
is the first man to wore a sanitary pad across the globe!»"
napkins
wOMEN can PRODUCE THEIR OWN SANITARY PADS thanks to Arunachalam Muruganantham
? the menstrual taboo
most people, and men in particular, find menstrual hygiene a difficult subject to talk about. As a result of these issues, WASH interventions often fail to address the needs of women and girls.
"my girlfriend use to go for loads of pain and takes off from work. She goes sick, bed ridden everytime. so.... no!
"I don't know! How much cost the operation to change sex?"
"i think so... but come back to being a man. i love my plumbing better!"
Would you like to be a woman and experience menstruation?
"i'm happy with whatever god has offered to me. i just want to be what i am."
"No, I know how girls are during their menstruation time! moody!" "Sure! I have been waiting for this day!"
"Hahaha! I never can, i don't have a vagina and i'm fine maintaining male parts. it's much difficult for women!"
If men could menstruate... Man! I lost like a liter of blood last time!
THEY would brag about how long and how much. Inspired by ÂŤIf men could menstruateÂť by Gloria Steinem
Reality...
WHat?? I can't enter the temple? roaaar!
Religious beliefs
She just just touched me, touched me, don't me! don't eat me!
Myths are really
common in India.
Myths
WHat?? I We look can't enter the same the temple? roaaar! no?
Kamakhya is famous as the bleeding goddess in Hinduism. In June her menstruation is celebrated and the Brahmaputra river turns red.
I'm sitting here for 9 days but after i will have my puberty ceremony!
Sadangu, a Tamilian tradition
traditions
"I like to party. but staying in a corner for 9 days made me feel so embarassed!"
yeaaaaah! Love it!
Given an option, about one third of women would choose to keep their period.
Contraception is often use Contraception to control or stop periods. to control or stop
We don’t know the effect of such practices in the long term...
periods?
"only when i got my first menstruations, it was awful, never felt that bad. But since then, nothing at all!" "Leg pain and sometimes stomach pain"
"there is pain... leg pain, weakness... depends."
Any pain? "yes. sometimes my right leg hurts and backache"
"i experience mood swings that are at times disruptive!" "the first couple of days are painful"
"sometimes, mostly winter. feels like the hip girdle is being sucked in. if first day's pain is bad i have to return home from work"
ouch!
freedom!!! Menopause is a
traumatic stage for many women. They feel losing their youth.
How to help Indian women overcome the challenges with respect to menstruation?
Axis 1 Provide an alternative way of
managing the flow.
Objectives:
Constraints:
Comfortable
Cultural beliefs
Sustainable
Indian vision of sex
Natural
Respect toward traditions
Don't have to wash it
industrial competition
affordable
Axis 2 Open the discussion and
educate
Objectives:
Constraints:
understandable
languages
accessible
Cultural beliefs
funny, friendly
medium
educational
narrow mind
informative
Axis 3 kill the pain.
Objectives:
Constraints:
healthy
ayurvedic medicine?
transportable
use anywhere
Natural
Respect toward traditions
affordable
pill industry competition
because i don't want to conclude on bloody pain....
ÂŤFlower growing in the house of the god of loveÂť Ancient Indian expression for a girl's first menstruation.
thank you! NoĂŤlline