My Period! My Pride, a drama serial on menstrual health and hygiene, produced by the Sanitary Pad Media Campaign (SPMC) has started airing on the Radio Nigeria Network. This is contained in a statement issued by the Communications Manager, Sanitary Pad Media Campaign (SPMC), Lagos, Bolanle Oluwayemi. The drama which began on August 8 would air weekly, within ‘Every Woman’, Radio Nigeria’s foremost programme on women related issues, at 7.
30pm. The programme is an advocacy tool to demand free sanitary pads for school girls from the Nigerian governments across all levels. According to the promoter, multiple award winning broadcaster, journalist, author and foremost social campaigner, Anikeade Funke Treasure: “This is an exciting development for us, Radio Nigeria is Africa’s largest radio network, with at least one radio station in every state of the country.
“This reach, combined with the power of radio in engaging and shaping audiences and publics provide a powerful opportunity to advance our advocacy and mirror the challenges of the girl child as she struggles with education in the face of period poverty. The 13-Week drama series captures the first menstruation, menstrual cramps, anxiety over continued education due to period poverty, menstrual hygiene, the effects of corporate and government intervention on schooling through donation of menstrual items to school girls, the empowerment of women, child abuse and exploitation, the significance of scholarship to indig.