{"id":6638,"date":"2019-04-11T15:44:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T19:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/earlhamcollege.wpengine.com\/?p=6638"},"modified":"2021-03-24T15:53:14","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T19:53:14","slug":"davis-projects-for-peace-awards-10k-for-earlham-students-pak-afghan-menstrual-hygiene-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlham.edu\/news-events\/davis-projects-for-peace-awards-10k-for-earlham-students-pak-afghan-menstrual-hygiene-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Davis Projects for Peace awards grant for students’ Pak-Afghan menstrual hygiene initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A new peacebuilding initiative by Earlham College students aims to break the stigma associated with menstruation in Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maida Raza \u201922 and Summia Tora \u201920 have earned $10,000 from the Davis Projects for Peace program to conduct the Dosti Initiative, a project that will result in summer workshops at grade schools in Kabul, Afghanistan, and Mehrabpur, Pakistan. Dosti means friendship in Persian and Urdu, primary languages in both countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere is a lot of hostility between both countries for political reasons and also due to the presence of large number of Afghan refugees in Pakistan,\u201d says Tora, an Economics and Peace & Global Studies double major. \u201cWe thought we could make a difference by not only teaching girls about menstruation but also by using it as a means of bringing people together to talk about common challenges and teaching them to work together.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project, which will be implemented from May 22 to June 18 at a local Kabul high school in Afghanistan and Mehrabpur Girls Primary School in Pakistan, has three objectives:<\/p>\n\n\n\n