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SCA conducts seminar for women on hygiene at Lisbon

19 Jun '15

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SCA, a leading global hygiene and forest products company, recently conducted a seminar on “Women Empowerment as a Game Changer on Hygiene Initiatives” on June 4, 2015 at the SCA Pavilion in Lisbon, Portugal.

Catarina de Albuquerque, vice-chair of Sanitation and Water for All (SWA), Kersti Strandqvist, SVP Sustainability for SCA, and Joséphine Edwall-Björklund, SVP Communications SCA, talked about the need to break taboos around menstrual hygiene, especially in developing countries.

Catarina de Albuquerque talked in a speech about the implications of lack of access to menstrual hygiene in developing countries, a situation that undermines the rights for women in the education and business areas, according to a press release.

Kersti Strandqvist focused her presentation on the role private companies have in order to support public institutions and NGOs fighting these types of taboos.

“We improve hygiene standards throughout the world with our hygiene solutions. The SCA-WSSCC partnership invests in educational programs, such as menstruation and puberty and parental education, helping to clarify questions about menstruation and the importance of good hygiene. SCA also focuses on adaptation to local needs in the entry to new countries, seeking to understand what they need more rather than imposing their products”, Kersti said.

Joséphine Edwall-Björklund said, “SCA, WSSCC, and Team SCA were in South Africa to talk with young girls who did not know much about or really understand the menstruation cycle. That talk supported our joint objective about breaking taboos and clarified that menstruation is something normal of women nature. We want to raise awareness of menstrual hygiene and empower women and communities to take action. Menstruation should not hold women back to participate fully in society, educationally, and professionally.” (GK)

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