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🌺 Good Menstrual health helps to keep good mental health. 🌺

Across Fiji and the Pacific, too many women and girls still face shame, stigma, stress, and lack of access to safe period products and information. These challenges don’t just affect physical health, they impact confidence, education, work, and emotional well-being too.

🩸 Period poverty can lead to anxiety, isolation, and missed opportunities.
💭 Hormonal changes and stigma can affect mood, self-esteem, and mental wellness.
🤝 Open conversations, support systems, and access to care can change lives.

It’s time to create Pacific communities where every person can manage their period with dignity, support, and pride.

Our bodies. Our minds. Our future.
Together, we thrive. 🌊✨

Every month (on average) women go through their period. Many have so many underlying issues that cause them grave problems and they are expected to simply ‘get by’
Medical/Health systems need to do better to help women through periods and the varying issues with it. Policies need to ensure that period poverty/ period dignity/ period leave are all accounted for.
Just calling us ‘strong’ and ‘resilient’ doesn’t cut it!!!

Systemic changes are needed if we want to improve as a society to achieve equality and a better quality of life.

Women still underrepresented on Fiji boards – FWRM Boards of State-Owned Enterprises in Fiji remain heavily male-dominated despite recent gains in women’s representation, according to new research by the Fiji Women’s Rights Movement. The […]

📢 Young people of Fiji — your voice matters.

What are your thoughts on the National Budget? What issues should be prioritised for young people?

Take a few minutes to complete this survey and share what matters most to you. Your feedback will help highlight youth priorities and ensure our perspectives are part of the national conversation.

🔗 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ErTCvTbHfIPxBIE6_rFjzkhnfqGw1bmxxrP6kb_BIE0/edit?usp=drivesdk

Online harassment and TFGBV - increasing an area of concern.
Technology Facilitated Gender Based Violence (TFGBV)
We as individuals and communities need to do better.
Respect is crucial in combating this rising issue.

Behind every bad@ss woman is a trauma story.
A reality that shapes her resilience and the story forward.
A support network that sometimes surprises even her.
The stories of the various ‘powerful’ women are stories that can leave you shocked. Listen to them with intent.
Learn from them so we can help build a better tomorrow.