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Erna Solberg, the country's Prime Minister, got the message, committing to double investment into girls' education.
Research in various parts of India shows that three out of every 10 girls are not aware of menstruation at the time of their first periods.
And in some parts of Rajasthan this number is as high as nine out of 10 girls being unaware of it.
You'd be surprised to know that most of the girls that I have spoken to, who did not know about periods at the time of their first menstruation thought that they have got blood cancer and they're going to die soon.
But in India, only 12 percent of girls and women have access to hygienic ways of managing their periods.
If you do the math, 88 percent of girls and women use unhygienic ways to manage their periods.
Another issue that periods brought in my life those of the social restrictions that are imposed upon our girls and women when they're on their periods.
You'll find signposts outside temples denying the entry of menstruating girls and women.
Ironically, most of the time it is the older woman who imposes such restrictions on younger girls in a family.
During my years of work in this field, I have even come across stories where girls have to eat and wash their dishes separately.
About 85 percent of girls and women in India would follow one or more restrictive customs on their periods every month.
He was astonished to know that girls get painful cramps and we bleed every month.
He was completely shocked to know about the restrictions that are imposed upon menstruating girls and women by their own families and their society.
That's when we wondered: if we, being so well educated, were so ill-informed about menstruation, there would be millions of girls out there who would be ill-informed, too.
While talking to many parents and teachers, I found that many of them actually wanted to educate girls about periods before they have started getting their menstrual cycle.
Girls nowadays get their periods in classes six and seven, but our educational curriculum teaches girls about periods only in standard eight and nine.
So school does not teach girls about periods, parents don't talk about it.
Where do the girls go?
These were stories of experiences of girls during their periods.
These stories would make girls curious and interested in talking about menstruation in their close circle.
We wanted something that would make the girls curious and drive them to learn about it.
We wanted to use these stories to teach girls about periods.
So we decided to create a comic book, where the cartoon characters would enact these stories and educate girls about menstruation in a fun and engaging way.
To represent girls in their different phases of puberty, we have three characters.
Through her, girls come to know about the various aspects of growing up and menstrual hygiene management.
During our prototype testing, we found that the girls loved the book.
Parents and teachers were comfortable in talking about periods to young girls using the book, and sometimes even boys were interested in reading it.
Many of the volunteers took this prototype themselves to educate girls and take menstrual awareness workshops in five different states in India.
15 schools in different parts of India have made this book a part of their school curriculum to teach girls about menstruation.
I am amazed to see how volunteers, individuals, parents, teachers, school principals, have come together and taken this menstrual awareness drive to their own communities, have made sure that the girls learn about periods at the right age and helped in breaking this taboo.
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