Period Poverty

Like many girls and women, periods have never been an easy fit for me. Every month there comes a dreadful feeling of what period symptoms to expect. Just like the current weather patterns, period symptoms are also ever changing. From headaches to nausea to low appetite to a week’s long back ache, the list goes on and […]

Hello there. My name is Nankya Fairouz. Different girls have different period experiences. Depending on whether you have some knowledge about it or not. For some reason it always hits different when it is the first time. The experience I am going to talk about is not about me but my little sister, Amirah. We

I have never really had a crazy terrible experience with my period. When I first got them, I wasn’t so alarmed because I am the last born of 5 girls, so I had an idea about them. I was more freaked out that it had actually happened. I was now forever going to be inconvenienced.

I would loosely term my period experience as ordinary and somewhat ‘uneventful’. It’s the kind that just passes by swiftly; just some five days that are like any other day save for the occasional cramping and the fact that being a muslim, I cannot offer my five daily prayers…but that’s okay because thanks to mum,

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

Period poverty is a pervasive issue affecting countless young girls in Uganda and remains a significant barrier to education. In this article, we delve into the impact of period poverty on girls’ education and how Yambi Community Outreach is breaking the silence.   Impact on Education:  Period poverty directly impedes girls’ access to education. In

As a young girl in primary seven, I experienced a significant milestone that marked my transition into womanhood: my first menstrual period. It arrived unexpectedly, catching me off guard with its arrival. Lasting only one to two days, it vanished as mysteriously as it came, leaving me to wonder when it would return.   Despite