The Leadership to Ensure Adequate Nutrition(LEAN) project aimed to create awareness among adolescent girls & women of reproductive ages living in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (three hill districts), Bangladesh.
The low literacy rate, high rates of malnutrition among children, adolescents & women, difficulty geography, low access to health & other services, water crisis, superstations, etc. are the main barriers to proper menstrual hygiene practices. Therefore, the activities to celebrate the World Menstrual Hygiene Day-2021 aimed to create awareness among the adolescent & women living in the hard-to-reach villages of the three hill districts.