PERIOD EMPOWERMENT NETWORK
PERIOD EMPOWERMENT NETWORK
DESCRIPTION:
The idea that menstruation is dirty, shameful and unmentionable keeps girls and women away from school and out of work. A woman without access to sanitary products may have to stay at home during her periods, or risks losing her job for getting off to change her pad, provided there are facilities for her to manage her menstruation at all. Even women working in office environments and girls in schools with convenient facilities, go to great lengths to hide periods. PERIOD Empowerment Network, herein referred to as “PEN” seeks to improve youth knowledge, skills, and attitudes about menstrual health and hygiene, and increase awareness about the body, relationships, sexual practices, sexuality, etc. PEN is a unique and powerful menstruation education project in empowering young people and building their capacities to continuously learn and raise awareness about menstrual health and hygiene and advocate for menstruation education.
ACTIVITIES:
Kick – Off Meeting Sweden (8-12 April 2019)
Training Course Kenya: A TC which seeks to bring together 24 youth workers, teachers,
social workers, civil society leaders, trainers, resources developers, etc. from 12 partner
countries to gain knowledge, skills and attitudes about menstrual health and hygiene.
Training Course USA: A TC which seeks to bring together 24 youth workers, teachers, social
workers, civil society leaders, trainers, resources developers, etc. from 12 partner countries
to gain knowledge, skills and attitudes about counter-narratives campaigns.
Workshop Greece: PEN partners will discuss further strategies on how to maintain PEN
sustainable after closing, and how to launch the mass dissemination and exploitation phase
so that the results are freely used or integrated in other menstruation education contexts.
PARTNERS:
- TERRAM PACIS – Norway 🇳🇴
- EIA – Portugal 🇵🇹
- WYZSZA SIZKOLA BIZNESU I NAUK O ZDROWIU – Poland 🇵🇱
- EYROPAIKO INSTITOYTO TOPIKHS ANAPTYKSHS – Greece 🇬🇷
- Erasmus Mundus Students and Alumni Association – Belgium 🇧🇪
- Asociacion de Innovacion Emprendimiento y Tecnologias de la 1 – Spain 🇪🇸
- Samahan ng mga Pillipina para sa Reporma at Kaunlaran, Inc – Philippines 🇵🇭
- Hello Youth – Sweden 🇸🇪
- Camion of Care – United States 🇺🇸
- VOLUNTEER ACTION FOR CHANGE KENYA – Kenya 🇰🇪
- Uganda Youth Skills Training Organization – Uganda 🇺🇬
- DISHA INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION TRUST – India 🇮🇳
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