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  Initiated by a German-based NGO WASH United in 2014, World Menstrual Hygiene Day (WMHD) is an annual awareness day to highlight the importance of good menstrual hygiene management. Observed on May 28, the commemoration seeks to acknowledge that 28 days is the average length of the menstrual cycle. World Menstrual Hygiene Day 2021, aims to create awareness and change negative perceptions around menstrual hygiene. Menstruation, period or monthly, is the periodic discharge of blood and mucosal tissue from the inner lining of the uterus through the vagina.    This year’s theme, “Action and Investment in Menstrual Hygiene and Health”, is clarion call for tax free pads or free provision of pads like the case of Condoms. This clarion call is as a result of the fact that approximately 800 million women and girls are having their period right now, yet across the globe, they face barriers to properly manage them. This calls for a world free of period poverty and stigma and recommits to b

The socio-political crisis in the North West and South West Regions of Cameroon that degenerated into an armed conflict, has come to add more salt in the wound of the social fabric of Cameroon, not only in these two Anglophone regions, but all over the national triangle. #defyhatenow Cameroon for example, after a careful observation of some online and offline activities, came to the conclusion that, there is need to Mobilize Civic Action to Counter Hate Speech and Violent Extremism both Online and Offline. It was therefore with shouts of joy and ululations that #defyhatenow Cameroon launched an online campaign to strengthen the voices and support the actions of primarily youth, community and media oriented civil society organizations, to counter social media based hate speech, conflict rhetoric and directed online incitement to violence in response to Cameroon’s ‘Anglophone Crisis’ . The project provides capacity building and media literacy trainings to enable community based org