Menstrual Health Day or Menstrual Hygiene Day

Menstrual hygiene day or Menstrual health day (MHD or MH) day is an annual awareness day on every 28th of May, to highlight the importance of good menstrual hygiene management and it's aimed to benefit women and girls worldwide.
The objectives of MHD Include;
  • To address the challenges and hardships many women and girls face during their menstruation.
  • To highlight the positive and innovative solutions being taken to address these challenges.
  • To catalyses a growing, global movement that recognizes and supports girl's and women's rights and build partnership among those partners on national and local level.
  • To engage in policy dialogue and actively advocate for the integration of menstrual hygiene management into global, national, local polices and programmes.
  • To create an occasion  for media work.
 This day makes audible and visible a growing  movement that promotes body literacy and autonomy.
(source Wikipedia)

Women let's educate ourselves and girl's on how to manage menstruation in a hygienic way. This is very important.

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