Menstrual health is a human rights issue.🩸✊🏾

#PeriodFriendlySLE #PeriodFriendlyWorld #MenstrualHygieneDay #MHD2024 #GlobalGoals

Let's end the stigma around menstruation and create a #PeriodFriendlyWorld for all women and girls. 🩸🪷🫶🏾

#PeriodFriendlySLE #MenstrualHygieneDay #MHD2024

Let's ensure that all girls in #SierraLeone are supported to manage their menstruation with dignity. 🩸✨️💕

#PeriodFriendlySLE #PeriodFriendlyWorld #MenstrualHygieneDay #MHD2024

Menstruation is a fact of life for the millions of women & girls across 🇸🇱

On the 10th anniversary of #MenstrualHygieneDay , we thank partners UNFPA Sierra Leone for giving a platform to women & girls to share their experiences.

Lots more work to do to make a #PeriodFriendlySL 🌸

#MenstrualHygieneDay reminds us that everyone has the right to access menstrual products. UNFPA's innovative initiatives like 'Menstrual Waste Management' (India), 'I am Somebody' (Sierra Leone), 'Sexo Santé' (Tunisia), & 'Ari The Pad ATM' (Kenya) are making a global impact! 🌍

✨Promoting a period friendly world.

Today is World Menstrual Hygiene Day & there should be no shame or stigma. Period.

It is essential that girls & women go to school and participate in wider society in a #PeriodFriendlyWorld .

🩸🌍 🇸🇱 #MHday2024 #PeriodFriendlySLE

💮 💮 What if you got your period, but had no menstrual products?
↪️ Everyone should manage their menstrual health safely and with dignity.😓

See the message of our regional Director on this #MenstrualHygieneDay . #PeriodFriendlyWorld

By addressing Menstrual Health and Hygiene, policy makers and stakeholders can make significant strides towards achieving multiple SDGs UNFPA Sierra Leone Ministry Of Gender and Children's Affairs
Symposium to mark the 10th anniversary of Menstrual Hygiene day UNFPA WCARO MenstrualHygieneDay #MHD2024 #PeriodFriendlySLE

#HappeningNow : Excited to join Ministry Of Gender and Children's Affairs, Ministry of Basic & Senior Secondary Education SL, @Irlembfreetown, UN agencies, girl-led orgs, CSOs & adolescents to mark #Menstrual Hygiene Day! 🌸 Together we are celebrating progress and charting the path to a #PeriodFriendlyWorld for all. #MHDay #PeriodFriendlySLE

Excited to kick off our commemoration of 10th Anniversary of #MenstrualHygieneDay with Minister of Gender, Dep. Minister of Education, Ambassador of Ireland & young people.

We're committed to working with partners to help create a #PeriodFriendlySLE .

#PeriodFriendlyWorld #MHDay

What do we need to do to make a #PeriodFriendlySLE become a reality?

This #MenstrualHygieneDay , join UNFPA to speak out and break the taboo: unf.pa/mlh

#PeriodFriendlyWorld #MHD2024

Don't miss out! 🌸 🩸✨ #UNFPA , the Gov’t of Sierra Leone, Irish Aid, and partners are hosting a one-day symposium today, May 28th, 2024, at 10:00 AM.

Click to join us live on Zoom: unfpa.zoom.us/j/86564870795?…
Meeting ID: 865 6487 0795
Passcode: 98528031

#PeriodFriendlySLE

In advance of tomorrow's #MenstrualHygieneDay , our Rep Nadia Rasheed spoke to ayv news on the significance of the 10th Anniversary of #MHDay . Together we can advocate for a #PeriodFriendlyWorld that advances dignity, health and rights of all girls & women 🪷
#PeriodFriendlySLE

Pleased to present Investment Case for #FamilyPlanning to Hon. Minister of Finance. Developed by Ministry of Health and UNFPA, the Investment Case shows that every $ invested in family planning in #SierraLeone can yield a 7-fold return in economic benefits.

We can make #motherhood safer for millions of women worldwide by taking action to #EndFistula .
Join UNFPA and partners to demand a world without this traumatic childbirth injury: unf.pa/cef

#GlobalGoal

Women with obstetric fistula face severe health and social challenges. UNFPA and partners are providing life-changing surgeries and rehabilitation with support from @Icelandinsalone, empowering women to reintegrate into communities and reclaim their lives.

#GlobalGoals

Fistula is one of the most serious childbirth injuries! Iceland is proud to work with UNFPA Sierra Leone, MoH & partners on breaking the cycle & ending fistula in Sierra Leone. Investing to ensure equitable access to quality maternal health services is essential #EndFistula

Today, UNFPA and partners shine a light on the silent suffering caused by obstetric #fistula . By investing in maternal health services and education, we can prevent new cases of fistula and restore dignity to those affected.
#GlobalGoals #EndFistula #WomensHealth

Today is the International Day to #EndFistula . This devastating birth injury leaves women stigmatized & isolated.

Thanks to MoH, #Iceland , Aberdeen Women's Centre, Haikal & partners, we're working to end #fistula in #SierraLeone by 2030 sierraleone.unfpa.org/en/news/sierra…

#LeaveNoOneBehind