May 2024

I remember it like it was yesterday, the 9th of April 2007, a seemingly ordinary Saturday that was anything but ordinary for me. I was 11 years old, and amidst the flurry of excitement and curiosity surrounding periods at my school, I found myself eagerly awaiting my turn. By this time, about half the girls […]

It was in my primary seven that I experienced my first period. As a 12-year-old girl, I had no idea about how to even put on a menstrual pad. At school, we were not given any education concerning menstruation and neither was I at home.  My best friend by then had experienced her period before