{"id":174186,"date":"2024-06-10T00:41:23","date_gmt":"2024-06-09T22:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-no-to-stigma-around-menstruation\/"},"modified":"2024-06-10T00:41:23","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T22:41:23","slug":"namibia-no-to-stigma-around-menstruation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-no-to-stigma-around-menstruation\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: No to Stigma Around Menstruation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\"><em>Following the commemoration of World Menstrual Hygiene Day recently, the K&#8217;Negongo Foundation has called for menstruation to be celebrated, understood and supported.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The foundation assists rural schools by donating sanitary pads, books, stationery and school uniforms, as well as contributing to feeding schemes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">Founder and director Paulina Kambonde said the foundation collaborated with the German embassy, Bannerman Mining Resources Namibia, the Environmental Investment Fund, Namibia Chamber of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406060691.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the commemoration of World Menstrual Hygiene Day recently, the K&#8217;Negongo Foundation has called for menstruation to be celebrated, understood and supported. The foundation assists rural schools by donating sanitary pads, books, stationery and school uniforms, as well as contributing to feeding schemes. Founder and director Paulina Kambonde said the foundation collaborated with the German [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":174187,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,21692,4706,724,257,254,12009],"class_list":["post-174186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-menstruation","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stigma"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}