PICK A PAD FOR THE GIRL CHILD

Good morning Pad-ers! Please donate to our upcoming outreach this month. 🩸 Moniepoint MFB 🩸6486428603 🩸PICK A PAD FOR GIRLS #SexualAssaultAwarenessMonth #Pickapad #girlsdeservedignitytoo

We are set for an outreach on the 28th of this month in celebration of #MenstrualAwarenessDay and we need your donations to make it a success. Kindly donate to: 🩸 Moniepoint MFB 🩸6486428603 🩸PICK A PAD FOR GIRLS #pickapad #menstrualhealth #awareness

@OluwaJedai @damielbadra Thank you very much! 🩷

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It will be Menstrual Awareness Day in a couple of days(28th) and it has been crazy getting permission from schools, but we are determined to talk about periods in any way possible even if we have to do it in the streets/market. We are once again seeking donations please.

These girls will endure cramps, bleeding with nothing to aid it but tattered clothes, likely physical and sexual assault, and extreme weather conditions. It is so unfair. It is wrong. Nigeria has failed its children. Nigeria has failed its girls.

May 27: Children's day. There are videos being released of bandits pouring melting plastic on children's backs. They are as young as 2yrs old. May 28: Menstrual awareness day. We are aware that there are girls in their captivity that will see their periods. How do they cope?

Happy Sunday, Pad-ers. We could use your support in making sure girls in school and the streets get to experience proper menstrual care this #menstrualawarenessday on the 28th. Please donate and share. 🩸Moniepoint MFB 🩸6486428603 🩸PICK A PAD FOR GIRLS Thank you! 🩷

Things to not normalise: PERIOD POVERTY!! Please tap the link in our bio to donate to our cause, or check our pinned post for our details. 🩷

3. Most people lose only two to three tablespoons of blood per period, though total fluid is about 30–40 milliliters. 4. Cramps come from prostaglandins contracting the uterus, and high levels can send pain to your lower back and thighs.

Things to normalise: 1. Menstrual blood is not dirty or a detox, it's just the healthy uterine lining shedding. 2. Your period's flow, color, and length normally change with age, stress, birth control, or perimenopause. 🧵

A gentle and forceful reminder, PERIOD POVERTY is more dangerous than you think. In big 2025/2026, a lot of young girls in NIGERIA DO NOT KNOW WHAT SANITARY PADS LOOKS LIKE.❗️ Not being able to afford is one thing Not knowing is another. @madamkeji @Herhealthbevy1

Mind you, growing up we used to have pad companies going to schools to teach period education and give out pads. The children of this generation don’t have that. You have the means to make a book on period education as a classed woman and you decided to sell it? SHAME SHAME SHAME

It’s still ridiculous. It’s ridiculous because the only thing kids starting out their period should be given is FREE sanitary care. Their parents shouldn’t have to buy a 25k pad kit and period education should sure as hell not be for sale.

With that being said, please donate to @pick_a_pad so we can give free pads to children who can’t afford them.

You can donate to us at Pickapad. We are a virtual and physical pad bank, and our mission is to alleviate period poverty and remove its stigma. Our details are: - -Moniepoint MFB - 6486428603 - PICK A PAD FOR GIRLS 🩷

This is the unfortunate reality of many girls in school. Each donation we receive is a step towards restoring the self esteem of our girls. Help us eradicate period poverty. Donate at: -Moniepoint MFB - 6486428603 - PICK A PAD FOR GIRLS 🩷

Anyways, if you can, please buy pads and share for women and young girls around you. Organize outreaches and educate these girls on their reproductive and period health. We are all we have at this point.

Period Education Research 🩷🪽 Wings Africa x Her Health Bevy are researching women’s experiences and awareness around menstruation & menstrual health. Your responses are confidential. Click the link below to fill out the form: forms.gle/TSSuBj1zGXQEgt…

In 1935, two American doctors examined seven women's ovaries and saw small lumps. They called them cysts and named the disease after them. They were wrong. It took 91 years to fix. What we called PCOS is now Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome (PMOS), announced today in The Lancet by an international panel of doctors and patients. The renaming followed more than a decade of consensus work and 22,000 patient and clinician survey responses. The lumps Stein and Leventhal saw were never cysts. Modern imaging shows they were follicles, the tiny sacs inside the ovary that grow and release an egg each month, frozen partway through by a hormonal imbalance. PMOS is a multi-system disorder centered in the endocrine system, the body's network of glands that produces hormones like insulin (controls blood sugar), cortisol (the stress hormone), and thyroid hormones (set the body's metabolism). The ovary trouble flows downstream from there. The naming choice is not academic. When doctors hear "ovary" in a diagnosis, they look at the ovary. "Metabolic" and "endocrine" send them to the whole body. PMOS affects roughly 1 in 8 women worldwide, more than 170 million people. The WHO estimates 70% have never been diagnosed. Among those who do, 1 in 3 wait more than 2 years, and nearly half see 3 or more doctors first. The CDC reports more than half of women with PMOS develop type 2 diabetes by age 40, a risk 5 to 10 times higher than women without the condition. Around 37% have clinically significant depression, compared with 14% in women without it. Anxiety runs at 42% versus 8.5%. A label born from a 1935 look at seven ovaries is finally going away. The new diagnostic guidelines roll out fully in 2028. By then, a woman walking into a clinic with these symptoms should hear questions about her blood sugar and her mood alongside her cycle. Those are the parts of the disease the old name hid for 91 years.