[PHOTOS] Young men, girls in Nakuru sensitised on menstrual health

Menstrual advocates on Saturday trained young men and girls on menstrual health in a workshop held in Nakuru County.

The workshop whose theme was ‘making menstruation a normal fact of life by 2030’equiped the young men and girls with skills to engage in and lessons about menstruation, the cycle, and female health in efforts to ensure they play their role in offering support.

The menstrual advocates from Heels4Pads, Unlearn Innovation Hub and Globally Engaged Men (GEM) workshop was held at Kwa Rhonda slum, Nakuru which is one of the largest sprawling slums in the county, with many cases of teen pregnancies, heightened vulnerabilities, crime, GBV, poverty affecting mostly out of school girls, before then the advocates conducted series of health awareness interviews with the men along nakuru Nairobi Highway.

The group raised awareness on issues related to periods.

In addition to the training, the group reached over 500 teen moms, girls plus men with dignity kits mobilised from the community for the menstrual education forums.

The beneficiaries were empowered with knowledge to better manage periods, improve hygiene to inform on their sexual reproductive rights, and reduce stigma.

Men were also sensitised on how to raise awareness against period stigma.

The advocates also distributed some essentials to the young moms among them diapers, sanitary towels and soaps.