by RRAAM | Dec 4, 2020 | Menstruation, Period Poverty, Sex Education, Youth and SRHR
To those who menstruate, have you ever had one of those incidents when your period came a little too early and you weren’t prepared for it? And so you scramble to the toilet for a stop-gap measure before you finally find a convenience store? Yes, we’ve all been there....
by RRAAM | Dec 4, 2020 | Comprehensive Sexuality Education, Sex Education, Teen pregnancy, Youth and SRHR
I had personally always found it such a cringe, cringe, moment when parents, educators, or older people spoke about sex. One, they make it super awkward. Two, they don’t even say S-E-X. And three, it’s nearly always perpetuating concepts practises that they acquire...
by RRAAM | Nov 11, 2020 | Medical Abortion, Sex Education, Teen pregnancy, Youth and SRHR
Being a pregnant 16-year-old teenage girl in a foreign country can be frightening, yet this was my reality 7 years ago. I had recently moved to another country with my family. The fetus that I was carrying was conceived by me and my 19-year-old boyfriend at the time...
by RRAAM | Oct 12, 2020 | Abortion Policy, Medical Abortion, Youth and SRHR
A few months back, I received a direct message on Facebook Messenger from an unknown account, possibly a fake one. Normally I would just ignore such messages because more often than not they are from scammers, but not this time. The message sent was short, but still...
by RRAAM | Sep 23, 2020 | Family Planning, Health Policy, SRHR + Environment, Youth and SRHR
When you think about solutions to climate change, ideas which will come to mind are probably carbon emissions taxation, stricter action against those committing crimes against the planet, or sustainable city planning. Small-scale environmental efforts have also been...
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