About
The social change that our team created is free sanitary napkins and condoms in the health center of Barangay Bahay Toro. Every woman and man needs this kind of service, especially in this generation. Not all women who are in need of sanitary napkins for their monthly periods have the privilege to access them and the same goes for men who are knowledgeable enough about the proper usage of this contraception. So with free sanitary napkins and condoms, women are able to have safe and hygienic menstruation while men can use condoms to prevent early pregnancy.
Napkins are preferably used when it comes to menstruation because their way of absorbing blood does not require the material to insert inside of the genitalia. Women can carry out normal work without any discomfort or worry.
Meanwhile, condoms are good contraception because they are more accessible and easy to use. And with proper guidance, responsibility, and knowledge, our community could prevent early pregnancy.
We believe all people can embrace who they are,
can define their future, and can change the world.
Purpose
The main purpose of this project is to make an open-source of sanitary napkins and condoms for the sake of “menstrual hygiene and health” and also “sexual reproductive health.”
There are arguments or situations in which talking about menstruation and sexual intercourse are regarded as taboo topics which makes it harder to normalize and instead, encourages ignorance about these things.
This will help the people of Barangay Bahay Toro to lessen their worry and shyness when having menstruation and attempt or do sexual intercourse. This is to educate and give awareness that condoms and sanitary napkins are part of primary needs as it is for the betterment of the lives of many.
Many women lack a source of income to provide every month for themselves with a sanitary pad/napkin. Based on a survey from Reuters Health, low-income women said they use cloth, rags, tissues, toilet paper, and sometimes even diapers or paper towels that were taken from public bathrooms as a substitute for period products. And this is one opportunity to fulfill the needs of many to also prevent the negative implications on women's reproductive health.
Providing free contraceptive products, particularly condoms, will help to campaign “Mas mura ang condom kaysa sa pagpapalaki ng bata.” to lessen the unpredicted circumstances such as early pregnancies and acquire the needs of both partners. But this project does NOT encourage people to do intercourse at all times.
Our team wishes to fulfill safe reproductive health and wealth for awareness and an open-minded society for the sake of the future of everyone.
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Description
The You Go Girl social change program focuses on giving free sanitary pads and condoms to lessen or reduce the incidence of underage pregnancy, the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, and those challenges girls face in regard to the cost of period essentials being simply too much.
Health-based programs and services like this will contribute more to the decrease of venereal disease and unwedded motherhood among teenagers. Encourage all girls and help them keep up their hygiene standards because female hygiene products definitely should be free because menstruation is not a choice.
The need to reduce the risk of avoiding teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases is providing condoms and proper sex education to all men for those who decide to have sexual relations. It may be a great opportunity for young men to take part and understand their responsibility in the process.
This is a situation that needs to be addressed all over the world. You Go Girl’s Mission is to give a comfortable experience for young girls during their menstruation and make them unbothered. Furthermore, giving all men free condoms will ensure that teenagers will practice safe sex and that the rate of unwanted diseases and population will lessen.