Breaking the Silence campaign to reach out to hill districts
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, January 30 2018: Breaking the Silence launched 'Youth and Education', the theme for its 2018 campaign in Bangalore yesterday.

With this the initiative enters the 5th year of active campaign to lead from the 'frontline'.

This year Breaking the Silence will focus on working with the youth, education institutions like schools, colleges, universities and special institutions like orphanages, rehabilitationcenters.

Breaking the Silence, a campaign to banish stigma around menstruation leads awareness building trainings of adolescent girls and women in the villages in the remotest parts of the country on the biology of menstruation, the do's and dont's and best practices of menstrual hygiene management with emphasis on different sanitary materials and safe and environment friendly use or disposal of used sanitary materials.

It aims at addressing the underlying gender inequality in homes and the need to end the culture of silence and shame around menstruation.

It has regional offices in Bangalore (Karnataka) and Imphal (Manipur) and has operations in 10 States across the country, gaining rapid outreach and scope for expansion to other states in 2018.Breaking the Silence Campaign will bring stories and interviews from 100 different girls and women, boys and men from different corners of the globe in the next 365 days in its #100storypact #series on its Facebook campaign page.

Founder of the global campaign, social worker Urmila Chanam has announced plans to lead a massive outreach in hill districts of Manipur in March beginning for over two months in Ukhrul, Churchanpur, Senapati.

Urmila was part of the National Media Workshop on Menstrual Hygiene Management in New Delhi in early January this year.

She shared how she wants to build a bridge between global and National level programmes and plans with Manipur.

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