Queenpads in partnership with WaterAid PNG through funding support from Sir Brian Bell Foundation and the Australia Network NGO Cooperation Program (ANCP), will yet again host a panel discussion event to commemorate World Menstrual Hygiene Day today at the Port Moresby Arts Theatre.
Menstrual Hygiene Day (MH Day) is commemorated annually on the month of May to raise awareness on the importance of menstrual care, addressing period stigma, education on menstruation and advocating for inclusive period.
With the global theme; ‘Making Menstruation a Normal Fact of Life by 2030’, the program will start with welcome remarks by Miss Pacific Islands, Josie Nicholas who will give the welcome remarks followed by the launching of the Pacific Menstrual Health Network Period Talk educational video then a panel discussion and a question & answer session.
The panelists will include advocates, supporters and those engaged in menstrual health advocacy activities including Dame Carol Kidu, Disability Advocate, Isabella Kila, Department of Planning and Monitoring PNG Cancer Foundation, ChildFund, and UN Women.
The focus of the discussion for this year is on the challenges and needs faced by different groups of the community.
In addition to this, the activity will also have a ‘Support Her Donation’; a Queenpads initiative in partnership with Sir Brian Bell Foundation in which reusable sanitary cloth-pads are donated to selected vulnerable and disadvantaged women and young girls.
For this year, will see two recipients receive the donation. Information booths are also set up by members of the Menstrual Hygiene Community of Practice (COP), which includes organizations and institutions that engage in menstrual health and hygiene advocacy.
Queenpads is a local social enterprise in Papua New Guinea with a mission to care for menstruating individual’s special days’ needs, focused on promoting Menstrual Health and Hygiene and the production of reusable sanitary cloth pads.