2010–2011 Fellow Ganga Gautam (Nepal) Featured in Newsweek Magazine
We are pleased to report that 2010–2011 BU Humphrey Fellow Mr. Ganga Gautam’s work to empower adolescent girls in Nepal against the phenomenon of menstrual shaming has been featured by Newsweek magazine. As an Echidna Global Scholar at the Brookings Institution in 2015, Ganga and his team—a nurse, a doctor and a gender activist—visited fifteen schools in remote areas of the country and taught 75 girls how to make, wash and store cotton menstrual pads.
They also engaged the girls, as well as their parents and teachers, in discussions about the importance of leadership, study skills, and time management.
Here is a link to Ganga’s report, “Empowering Adolescent Girls in Rural Nepal,” and here is an article published by The Brookings Institution, with a video of Ganga speaking about the project.