# @girlup on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CeGrV1epEqZ
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/76174399-girlup-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2022-05-28T14:01:31.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Girl Up (@GirlUp) — https://gondola.cc/GirlUp

## Caption

For #MenstrualHygiene Day, we're highlighting not one but FOUR Girl Up Clubs that have organized, advocated, and fundraised to ensure those in their communities have hygienic and dignified menstruation.⁠
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✨ Girl Up Saarthi girlup.saarthi, based in India, distributed menstrual pads to women in a local neighborhood. The Club also helped locals understand more about menstrual cups, by explaining its benefits and demonstrating its use. While seemingly simple, access to menstrual products can open up opportunities for girls and women. ⁠
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✨ Girl Up Uyo girlupuyo in Nigeria conducted a Menstrual Hygiene and Sexual Reproductive Health Campaign at a local girls school. The Club distributed over 200 pads to the girls, many of whom cannot afford them because of recent price increases. By also teaching the girls how to wear pads, the Club members are helping to ensure each and every student can stay in school, even when menstruating. ⁠
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✨ Girl UP CMHS cmhsgirlup, located in Louisiana, USA, took menstrual hygiene to their State Capitol! Club President, Ananya Bhatia, testified to pass a bill that would require every public school in the state to provide free & accessible menstrual products. The bill PASSED last month with zero objections! (Proof that youth voices deserve to be heard at every level of decision making!)⁠
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✨ GirlUpVenezuela started Orchid Cycle, a long-term menstrual health initiative. During their first activation, they talked with girls in the Gramoven community about menstrual hygiene and reproductive health. In addition to a menstrual kit, the 27 girls left the workshop with more information to make hygienic decisions about their menstruation. 👏🏽⁠
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Learn more about why menstrual hygiene is so important to the sexual reproductive health, rights & justice of girls at girlup.org/issues/srhrj (link in bio)⁠
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#MHDay2022

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