Bangladesh
Tanvhir Sweety, Her Mother, and Her Friends Change Their Attitudes toward Menstruation
 Tanvhir Sweety is a student of class nine in Palordi High School at Gournadi, Barisal. During this year, Tanvhir started menstruating. From that time onward her life became miserable. She was suddenly not allowed to go to school while she was menstruating, nor was she allowed to eat any eggs, meat, milk, or fish.
Sweety was very unhappy with the restrictions and did not understand the reasoning behind them.
During this period of her life, Sweety was given a chance to attend one of the Life Skills Workshops supported by BCCP. During the workshop, she learned many useful things about the physical and mental changes during puberty and how to handle them wisely.
Menstruation was also a topic - and here Sweety learned that the behaviors taught by her mother were not appropriate nor healthy and that she would need to change those behaviors in order to maintain a healthier body.
According to Sweety, the learning from the workshop made her life a lot easier. Sweety did not limit her learning to herself and her family however. She decided that since many of her peers had the same questions and concerns that it would be good to share her information with them.
"If every adolescent in Bangladesh gets an opportunity to participate in life skills workshop,
it will be a great help for them to take care of themselves."
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