HELLO PERIODS Facilitator's Guide

Becoming a Period Educator is a total piece of cake!

In Just 2 Hours with Our 3-Step Blueprint

Introduction Video to Lead your 1st Workshop

"How to" Instruction Video

In this video Aditi Gupta shares how we at Menstrupedia use 'Hello Periods' to conduct menstrual awareness workshops.

How you can conduct such workshops too, using the free resources available on this page.

Your 3 Step BlueprintYour 3 Step Blueprint:
Step 1

Download Hello Periods Workshop Video

"Hello Periods" is an educational video that you can use to conduct workshops. It's recommended that kids have access to the Menstrupedia Comic too.Step 2

Download High Resolution Reference Image

This is a reference image of the female reproductive system that you would need while conducting a menstrual awareness workshop.

Step 3

Cheat Sheet to Ace your Q/A Session

“HELLO PERIODS” video is segmented into five sections, each with its corresponding Q&A.

At the end of each section, find colored pause screens and ensure your workshop audience knows the answers to the associated questions when you see them.

Growing up Q&A
Green Pause at 3 min 13 sec

Q1: What changes do we see in the body while growing up?

Ans: Height and weight increases, breasts begin to develop, hips widen and hair begins to appear in the underarms and around the genitals.

Q2: What is vaginal discharge? Is it normal?

Ans: Vaginal discharge is whitish or clear secretions from the vagina. It is normal.

Q3: How many openings are there between our legs? What is the purpose of each opening?

Ans: There are three openings between our legs. Urethra, from where the urine comes out, vagina, from where the baby comes out during child birth and anus, from where the feces come out.

What are Periods? Q&A

Purple Pause at 7 min 51 sec

Q1: What are periods? Is it normal?

Ans: Periods is a process in which blood comes out of the vagina for 3-7 days. It is normal.

Q2: Why does blood come out of vagina during periods?

Ans: In the absence of a baby, the uterus sheds its inner lining of blood and soft tissue, which we see as blood coming out of the vagina.

Q3: When do periods start and stop?

Ans: Periods generally start between the ages of 10 to 15 years and stop between the ages of 45 to 55 years.

What is Healthy Diet? Q&A

Orange Pause at 4 min 49 sec

Q1: What do we need iron for?

Ans: Necessary for carrying oxygen in blood.

Q2: What are the main sources of iron?

Ans: Peas, spinach, dal, nuts, and fish.

Q3: Why is iron important for girls especially?

Ans: To replenish the blood lost during periods and prevent anaemia.

When will I get my next periods? Q&A

Pink Pause at 11 min 36 sec

Q1: Can you find out when will you get your next period? How?

Ans: Yes, track periods on a calendar. Usually, periods occur every 28 days.

Q2: How to reduce period pain?

Ans: Warm heating pad and yoga poses.

Q3: What should we do if periods are irregular?

Ans: It is common in the beginning. If it continues, talk to a doctor or a trusted elder.

Good Menstrual Hygiene Q&A

Blue Pause at 17 min 7 sec

Q1: What is a sanitary pad and how to use it?
Ans: Sanitary pad is a thin pad of absorbent material that is used to absorb the blood coming out during periods. Sanitary pad is worn in the underwear such that it exactly covers the opening of the vagina.

Q2: How to dispose a sanitary pad? Can sanitary pad be flushed down the toilet?
Ans: Used sanitary pad must be wrapped in a waste paper and put in a garbage bin. Thereafter the lid of the garbage bin must be closed. Sanitary pad should never be flushed down a toilet.

Q3: What to do if you get periods in school?
Ans: We should tell a teacher or school nurse about it and ask her for a pad. We can also borrow a pad from a friend.

Q4: What hygiene measures should be taken during periods?
Ans: We should take a shower at least once a day. We should wear clean undergarments and change them regularly. Pads should be changed regularly and hands should be washed clean before and after changing pads. Genital area should be kept clean and dry.

Download impact assessment module

If you want to assess the impact of your workshop and convert it into tangible data, you can use this module. This module consists of a pre-test and a post-test to find out the gain in menstrual awareness among the participants after the workshop.

How to Use:

- a. Trainer’s version
- Pre-Test
  Post-Test
- b. Attendee’s version
  Pre-Test
- Post-Test
Each folder contains a pre-test and a post-test questionnaire in a word file. As the name suggests, pre-test is conducted before the workshop and post-test is conducted after the workshop.
The questions in the Trainer’s folder have been categorized and labelled under different sections to indicate to the trainer the purpose of each of those questions.
For the purpose of conducting test, the files in the Attendee’s version folder must be printed and used.
Pre-tests must be as short as possible to ensure that the attendees retain their enthusiasm till the end of the test and are eager to participate in the workshop. That is why you’ll notice that the pre-test consists of only five short questions. Post-test on the other hand is more detailed and consists of 11 short questions.
At the end of each test, for each participant, grant her 5 marks for each correct answer and 0 for each wrong answer. For questions where multiple correct answers must be ticked, grant the participant less than 5 marks if she ticks only a few correct answers but not all.
After granting the marks, calculate the percentage: Percentage = (Total marks of the participant x 100) / Total marks in the questionnaire.
Improvement in percentage in post-test for each girl is the improvement due to the workshop.