Menstrual Health Management Innovation with Refugees in Kakuma, Kenya
Commitment description:Parsons School of Design is committed to working with UNFPA and refugees in Kakuma, Kenya to develop innovative approaches to menstrual health management and environmental sustainability. We are committed to developing in consort with women in Kakuma reusuable, menstrual undergarments that provide an alternative to single-use/disposable sanitary pads. The high absorbency underwear offers women a new, all-in-one, dignified, sustainable alternative to costly and environmentally damaging single-use sanitary pads.
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- Programmatic actionMenstrual Health Management Innovation with Refugees in Kakuma, Kenya
Uphold the right to sexual and reproductive health care in humanitarian and fragile contexts(12) Ensuring that the basic humanitarian needs and rights of affected populations, especially that of girls and women, are addressed as critical components of responses to humanitarian and environmental crises, as well as fragile and post-crisis reconstruction contexts, through the provision of access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health information, education and services, including access to safe abortion services to the full extent of the law, and post-abortion care, to significantly reduce maternal mortality and morbidity, sexual and gender-based violence and unplanned pregnancies under these conditions.
