It's something that girls and young women in western countries can't imagine: missing school, even dropping out, because of their periods. Yet as many as half the girls in rural parts of Ethiopia miss school for reasons related to their periods -- and that can have a devastating effect on their education and the rest of their lives.
Freweini Mebrahtu has dedicated her life to keeping girls in school by designing a reusable menstrual pad and trying to end the cultural stigma around the issue -- and because of her work, she has been named the 2019 CNN Hero of the Year."I don't even know what to say," Mebrahtu said when receiving the award."I am so humbled and grateful for CNN ... this is for all the girls and women everywhere. Dignity for all.
She designed and patented a reusable menstrual pad in 2005, and she and her team produce 750,000 reusable pads a year at her factory in Ethiopia. Nearly 800,000 girls and women have benefited from her work.
FirstNet Shouldn’t it be called Womenstruation since men don’t get it?
FirstNet Maybe the Democratic Party can stop spending money on this impeachment witch-hunt and help these kids. Some how realDonaldTrump will get blamed for this too.
FirstNet And why should we give a frack if girls in this country don’t have tampoons
FirstNet CNN SUX
FirstNet CNN sucks!
FirstNet Barf?
FirstNet Can some be sent to the girls in the holding camps for immigrant youth along our Southern border
FirstNet This is wonderful. Sometimes zi have to miss work/college or suffer though because of my violent cramps on my 1st day each month. I am happy to see proper education being implemented into this community. I have some reusable pads and they are wonderful alts.
Thank u for intervening our mother,sister and wife problem..since u are poor country for many infrastructure system ,but we spend billions dollars for war how we are blinded people ..... See world ,see woman
TRUMP = more mass shootings. If you’re reading this post and have children I pray to god it’s not one of your children and/or love one dying.
If the US government and it's global domineering media concentrate more on the tragedies of drugs abuse, addiction, and deaths and other social issues, the world would be better, not just the US. What if you mind your business, Uncle Sam?
Interestingly enough: Disposable menstrual pads grew from a Benjamin Franklin invention created to help stop wounded soldiers from bleeding, but appear to have been first commercially available from around 1888 with the Southall's pad.
Congratulations to Freweini Mebrahtu, the 2019 CNN Hero of the Year!!!!
And still, like yeast, they rise.
They can run very fast!
So beautiful and creative. Some believe when we create we are most like God, made in His image. We are the only living creatures that can create on a consistent basis. Thank God!
Congratulations our hero
Now I know why y'all have shit ratings
It’s unbelievable to me that there’s still such ignorance about this!
CNN’s “Hero of the year” is “stamping out the stigma surrounding menstruation”? You people are an absolute joke.
betelhem_dessie I'm from Ethiopia... we are so proud
Doesn’t a hero sacrifice something?
What about the terrorist manifesto. Can you leftists actually report some real news.
What a lovely participation trophy!
Does anyone care?
Everyone is a victim.
Well done fre... I'm really proud of you🇪🇹🇪🇹
Is this serious? There’s a stigma around menstruation? My God CNN is an absolute dumpster fire.
So empowering
Menstruation 🩸 stigma?
CNN no longer have the credibility to give Heroes award . Not after they supported killing of unborn babies ..supported Democrats corruption and killed the ethos and ethics of journalism