{"id":275974,"date":"2019-05-12T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMicmh0dHBzOi8vZmFjZTJmYWNlYWZyaWNhLmNvbS9hcnRpY2xlL2JyZWFraW5nLXRoZS1wZXJpb2QtdGFib28td2l0aC1yZXVzYWJsZS1wYWRzLW1lZXQtZXRoaW9waWFzLWZyZXdlaW5pLW1lYnJhaHR1MdIBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-18T11:52:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T15:52:46","slug":"freweini-mebrahtu-fought-period-taboo-in-ethiopia-with-reusable-pads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/275974","title":{"rendered":"Freweini Mebrahtu fought period taboo in Ethiopia with reusable pads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 Face2Face Africa profiled Freweini Mebrahtu, who for nearly a decade had worked to lift the secrecy around menstruation in Ethiopia by producing and promoting reusable pads.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-466359\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Women-and-Children-Severely-Affected-Amid-Ongoing-Humanitarian-Crises.jpeg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Freweini Mebrahtu fought period taboo in Ethiopia with reusable pads\" \/>\n<p>Period stigma still pushes girls out of classrooms and locks women into expensive disposable products they cannot always buy. Mebrahtu\u2019s approach treated dignity as design and local manufacturing, not only as donor workshop talk.<\/p>\n<p>Health reporting often skips menstrual economics. This profile keeps a named Ethiopian inventor and a practical tool on the public record.<\/p>\n<p>As women and health archive, the Freweini Mebrahtu story belongs with other grassroots innovation files that outlast ceremony news from Addis Ababa.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/face2faceafrica.com\/article\/breaking-the-period-taboo-with-reusable-pads-meet-ethiopias-freweini-mebrahtu1\">Face2Face Africa<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking the period taboo with reusable pads, meet Ethiopia&#8217;s Freweini Mebrahtu&nbsp;&nbsp;Face2Face AfricaFor almost 10 years, Freweini Mebrahtu has been working to take off the veil of secrecy shrouding menstruation in many parts of the world, partic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":466359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Women-and-Children-Severely-Affected-Amid-Ongoing-Humanitarian-Crises.jpeg?fit=1200%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19Nc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275974"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754509,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275974\/revisions\/754509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}