Advocating for menstrual equity and health for ALL women but most of all women in Nigeria 🇳🇬
ABOUT CRIMSON TIDES
Our Background
My Story – 14 years at the age of 29 I discovered I had fibroids. Prior to this discovery I had heavy and painful periods but had never visited the doctors to do any further investigations. Since discovering I had fibroids, I have had three myomectomies and finally a hysterectomy in the summer of 2021. For years I suffered from flooding, which means bleeding through my clothes in many public spaces, I was consistently anxious and often exhausted by anaemia. With everything that I have been through, I began to think about women just like me in countries across the world with limited access to appropriate medical advise and treatment. This also lead to my curiosity to understand what is being done to support young women and girls in rural Nigeria. Women who are unable to afford sanitary products and have to decide on whether to purchase a sanitary products or buy food or go to school. I have discovered that through supporting women, you empower them to focus their energy elsewhere - gain an education, work and contribute to their communities.
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My personal story is my motivation and driver to make a difference. Through donations we can supply products to schools and employers, we can educate girls and boys on period health, we can raise awareness to support women in rural Nigeria. You might be asking why Nigeria? And I say why not? It is where I am from, where there is an opportunity to make a difference and drive change. I would love to give back. Join me.
OUR MANIFESTO
Our core aim is to eradicate period poverty in Nigeria. To provide substantiable period products, raise awareness on menstrual and challenge the myths and stigma that surrounds periods. Period poverty is a real problem for many people in Nigeria. Period products are a necessity, but they are expensive. Tight budgets can leave people forced to prioritise other purchases, leaving them without the right period products, without enough period products, or without any period products at all.
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Campaigns to address period poverty have gained momentum across Africa, and we require support from the Nigerian government to step up and help solve the problem. Last year Scotland became the first country in the world to make period products free for all. Wouldn’t it be great if Nigeria followed suit? With your help and partnership with other NGO’s we can make this a possibility.
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Increasing access to period products is really important. Free products can keep people in school, improve concentration, encourage participation in sport, and support good health. They prevent people having to make dehumanising choices – to wear the wrong product, or a worse quality product or to wear a product for longer than is hygienic or safe Having access and adequate supply to products and information can only strengthen women to make empowering choices.