By Ahmed Dantala

Her pride, other stakeholders in menstrual wellness have decided to empower women with confidence and freedom from stigma or period poverty.

They said this at a launch of a menstrual wellness app, “her pride: the pride of every girl”, on Saturday, in Abuja.

The event with the theme “empowering menstrual wellness: healthy cycle, healthy lives”.

Ms Anjolaoluwa Odunaike, product manager and team lead, her pride app, said women should be proud of their period and feel free to discuss it even among the male gender.

Odunaike however encouraged everyone to learn about menstrual health and be conversant with discussions that have to do with menstruation.

“In today’s world, a lot of ladies have menstrual health related issues and are usually shy or ashamed to talk about it.

“So, with Her pride, we are giving women the space, the opportunity, especially in Nigeria.

“It’s a community for women in Nigeria to be able to talk about their issues, their problems and empowered as the problems are being solved and not necessarily have to hide it anymore.

“In Nigeria here today, we have a lot of ladies who are used to the norms of waiting for their menstrual supprises to come, but with her pride, you can easily get notification about when your period will come, you are not necessarily surprised, you are ready for it.

Ms Lois Amele, Executive Director, Good tides Philippian Mission Foundation, expressed her readiness to collaborate and also urged the government to emulate the initiative by also partnering with the organisation.

“We would like to partner with this organisation

“I would say this is an opportunity where the government will have to come in and partner with this organisation and donate particularly to this organisation.

” They are not only assisting the people in the rural environment, but they are also doing a lot with the urban environment.

“So, I would say that, minister of women affairs, women affairs secretariat and every government bodies, we need to come together and push what is going down here in her pride.

Ms AbdulKareem Silifat, a corp member and participant at the event, said she grew up in a Muslim home as a lady, and that she could not really discuss anything about menstruation when the male gender were at home.

“Sometimes we are really feeling pains, they are there sending us to buy things or do things.

” Am really happy that there are people out there that really care about menstrual circles and are willing to take it a bit further and also educate people about it.”

The highlight of the event was the official launch of the “Her Pride App”.

NAN reports that, Her pride app is a platform that helps women track their menstrual period, mood and cycle flow.(NAN) (www.nannews.ng).

Edited by Ismail Abdulaziz