Deconstruct the taboos surrounding the question of menstruation negatively impacting the well -being of young girls in schools. This is what the Education-Vie-Espérance Association (Eve) was hardened on Wednesday, during an awareness session having recorded the presence of more than 300 girls in Bargny. “Our objective by coming here was to raise awareness of the maximum of young girls in this city of Bargny about this problem, to distribute kits of dignity to show them that it is a natural phenomenon and that it must not be a brake on education and success,” said, at the end of the meeting, Fatou Mballo Thiam, vice-president of the association activating in education, Equal opportunity in vulnerable areas. The meeting was an opportunity for exchanges and sharing experiences between young girls and panelists. “The rules are a source of dropping out of school and abandoning young girls (…) Today, in cities, we are faced with these problems. We have young girls who cannot afford to buy hygienic towels. What about those in the villages? ”, She posed, reiterating the association’s commitment to invest more about the issue. “We wanted to start with actions, make a map of the environments that need it most and carry out our targeted actions on this problem of rules and education, as well as leadership,” she insisted. Santuated Diouf, for its part, underlined the importance of awareness of the problem of menstruation which remains, according to its purpose, “a central question but on the fringes of the concerns of the general public system”. “Actions like those of the Eve association go in the direction of uninhibiting young girls,” said Diouf, one of the animators of the panel. This comes, according to him, to the Family Life Education Program (EVF), weighed down by insufficient time quantum in schools for its optimal progress. The debates also focused on female leadership. “Beyond the menstruation, there is a real subject of society where young women must exist, must be worn, must have model roles to show them that it is possible. We must deconstruct beliefs, ”noted Carmen Thiam, animator of the panel dedicated to female leadership. The day was organized in collaboration with the Abass Ndione media library in Bargny which sheltered the event.
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