Menstrual Liners

Women’s Health in any community is an important concern.

When a women is forced to isolate from her community during her menstrual cycle she is denied the ability to earn, learn and participate.

Often, in a advaced culture the simplicity of available menstrual products is taken for granted.

Cost is a significant issue with commercial menstrual products.

So is the environmental impact of the disposal of such devices.

Programs such as Days for Girls have looked to address this. AUS-SSC has taken the simple approach of SOURCING a local women’s sewing group to manufacture menstrual liners and then to provide these to women during our clinics.

The aim is to provide a clean, healthy alternative to dealing with your menstrual cycle which looks to give women an ability to continue to function in a demanding environment.

We also hope that these products remove some of the stigma of the menstrual cycle while providing a cheap and reusable option.

The benefit is two fold. The order for product provides income for the women of the Prey Thom Sewing School (this initiative of the Jesuit Mission takes women on to learn sewing - on graduation they receive a sewing machines - and thereby an ability to earn).

We hope that through an ongoing contract between AUS-SSC in the Prey Thom village, and with the Sewing Circle, to provide a sustainable product that offers income and outcomes for women