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Why Period Friendly Toilets Matter

Period friendly toilets are important for women and girls to manage their menstruation safely and with dignity. They need access to private, clean toilets with water and soap, as well as safe ways to dispose of menstrual products. Having period friendly toilets available at home, school, work, public spaces and health centers reduces stress and allows women and girls to fully participate in daily activities during their periods without fear.

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Why Period Friendly Toilets Matter

Period friendly toilets are important for women and girls to manage their menstruation safely and with dignity. They need access to private, clean toilets with water and soap, as well as safe ways to dispose of menstrual products. Having period friendly toilets available at home, school, work, public spaces and health centers reduces stress and allows women and girls to fully participate in daily activities during their periods without fear.

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WHY PERIOD FRIENDLY

TOILETS MATTER
On any given day, approximately 300 million women and girls menstruate.
In order to manage their menstruation safely, hygienically, with confidence
and with dignity, they need a private space to attend to their menstruati-
on-related needs, such as washing themselves and changing materials.
For most women and girls, this will be a toilet. in public spaces

at health centers
And of course the
toilet must be clean!
at home
Safe and conveniently
Where located and accessible for
all women and girls,
do women including those
and girls need at work
with disabilities
period friendly
toilets? at school
Public and
community
toilets should
be separated by
gender, also provide access to
menstrual products and have
hooks, shelves and mirrors
Provides privacy
(doors, locks)
Water
What and soap is
available to
Culturally
makes a toilet wash hands,
bodies and appropriate Increased safety
period friendly? any reusable menstrual waste
With period friendly toilets,
products disposal option
(dustbins, women and girls no longer
chutes, pits) need to put themselves at
risk of violence when trying
to dispose of their menstrual
waste in secluded places or
under the cover of darkness
Accessible during
day and night
(area and internal
lighting)

Increased overall well-being and


reduced psychological stress
Having access to period Increased ability to
How friendly toilets at all times
makes menstruation a
carry on with daily
educational, income-earning
do women and less stressful experience and social activities
girls benefit Period friendly toilets are
critical to ensure that girls
from period don't miss school and
friendly toilets? women can go to work
during their periods

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