Stigma around Menstruation

2018-03/2018-03

Project FUEL
India

Menstrual hygiene is one of world's most important areas of concern. Especially, when one works in a rural community like Khati, you realise how much awareness and sensitisation is needed. Due to conservative ideologies, most women during their cycle have to spend days living in the cowshed instead of their own home. The Hans Foundation has initiated participative workshops to bring awareness in the community about menstruation. This wall was painted to support the effort.

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Title: Stigma around Menstruation
Date Created: 2018-03/2018-03
Location: Khati, District Bageshwar, Uttarakhand
Type: Mural
Contributor: In the second edition of the Wise Wall Project, Project FUEL collaborated with The Hans Foundation to collect and paint the life lessons of the villagers of Khati.
External Link: The Hans Foundation
Medium: Weather-proof Exterior Wall Paint
Project: The Wise Wall Project is an initiative by Project FUEL and FUEL Foundation to document the rural wisdom of our villages and celebrate it through art murals. The initiative transforms villages into living classrooms, turning the walls of the same onto blackboards and canvases that uncover striking yet simple life learnings. The project aims to ignite a movement of transforming the long forgotten villages into open-air galleries, exhibiting human wisdom for anyone and everyone in the world to see and benefit from. In the second edition of the Wise Wall Project, Project FUEL collaborated with the Hans Foundation to collect and paint the life lessons of the villagers of Khati. Khati has now become the second village after Saur, in the recent history to have a documented database of life lessons from an entire community. And as wishful as it gets, the village has now been transformed into a living storybook that tells the tales of Khati, like never before.
Photography: Jaison James

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