Menstrual hygiene day

My Menstruation Story.

I started menstruating when i was in JSS3 that, i could still remember vividly, when it started i was expecting it at that age range because everyone in class then already had seen theirs.

Unlike the early menstruation stories that i have heard, i knew it was going to come, i knew what it is and how it looks like,  i knew i was going to wear sanitary pads when it starts because my teacher taught me in school, the only thing i didn't realize and also didn't learn was how to wear the sanitary pads.

We were on holidays when it started, so i was obviously at home, the funny thing is that i didn't tell my mum because i taught i already knew how to handle it, then one day she caught me in the bathroom trying to fix myself, that was when i knew i have been wearing the pads the wrong way, i wore my pads without tightening it in my panties because the gummy parts were still covered, this was what school didn't teach me but my mum taught me.

The Menstruation challenges.

Menstruation goes beyond just seeing blood and wearing pads, Availability of pads at an affordable rates is another topic that has been left untreated.

Unavailability of pads at affordable prices has subjected young ladies, and women to using materials Like, rags, tapoons, even tissue papers during menstruation which are unhealthy and unhygienic.

In the Nigeria of today ladies with average or poor source of income might not be able to afford even the so called cheapest sanitary pad in the market because the cheapest for the most buoyant family could be the most expensive for them.

So how would ladies now fix theirselves when menstruating since the prices of pads are highly exorbitant, " without pads ladies cannot padup when menstruating.

Curbing the Menace.

I understand that NGOS are dimming it fit to volunteer to schools especially secondary schools to sensitize them on menstruation, menstrual hygiene and as well share free sanitary pads to them, so it could at least enable them pad their selves up for the meantime.

Governmental organizations also have a role to play in this, joining hands with  the NGOS to curb the unavailability of pads for female child to padup won't also be a bad idea.

I have seen many female child that has been left in the middle of disgrace because they were stained not because they didn't padup while menstruating but because they wore  wrong material which could easily have stained because it doesn't retain blood.

They will always say government won't be held responsible for everything, then who should be held responsible for high cost of things in market especially menstrual pads?

Female child have done their part by learning menstruation and menstrual hygiene, it's now left for government to align the state of the economy so that items including menstrual pads would be affordable and available for every female child to padup.