Cultural Lag in Menstrual Health : When Products Advance but Mindset Remain Behind
BY: AMLESH When a girl has knowledge but lacks social permission, when products exist but acceptance does not, when awareness grows but silence remains – That is cultural lag. Cultural lag is the period of maladjustment between the material culture and non material culture. In simple language, science, technology, innovation and products developed rapidly but the cultural belief, values, norms and social […]
Protecting The Future: Addressing the Impact of Child Marriage on Reproductive Health
BY: AMLESH Child marriage is defined as any formal or informal union where at least one person is under the age of 18 (in context of Nepal, under the age of 20). Internationally, this practice is recognized as serious violation of human right that prevent young people, especially girls from exercising their right to health, education, and safety. […]
Story: A Silence Unheard- The Girls of Madhesh
BY: AMLESH “हमरा महिनावारी के समय बहुते जोर से बहुते पेट दुखाई छल, लेकिन हम इ बात अपन पप्पा स नई कहलियै । ओ बहुत ध्यान रखे वाला छथि, मुदा हमरा लाज लागै छेलै पप्पा के कहै लागी ।….” “ I had Severe pain during my period, but I did not tell my father. He is very caring, but I felt Ashamed.” This simple, heartfelt statement, shared quitely by an adolescent girl during a menstrual health sessions of SARATHI in the terai region of Nepal, captures a reality faced […]