🌸 Amar Meyebela
Breaking taboos, creating awareness, restoring dignity and empowering girls and women through menstrual health education and hygiene support.
🌸 Amar Meyebela
Amar Meyebela is a menstrual health and dignity initiative of Poribes Foundation, created to ensure that menstruation is understood, discussed and managed with confidence and care.
Our Purpose
We work to empower girls and women through menstrual health education, awareness and access to essential hygiene support. Our approach combines knowledge, behaviour change, compassion and practical assistance.
Our Vision & Mission
Our Vision
To build a society where every girl and woman experiences menstruation with dignity, confidence and freedom—without shame, stigma, discrimination or barriers to education and daily life.
Our Mission
Amar Meyebela works to empower girls and women through menstrual health education, awareness and access to essential hygiene support. We aim to break myths and social taboos, encourage open conversations and promote safe, healthy and dignified menstrual practices.
🌸 Our Key Initiatives
Our initiatives combine awareness, hygiene support, education and community participation to promote menstrual dignity.
Break Taboos & Myths
Challenge menstrual stigma, misconceptions and discriminatory practices.
Education & Awareness
Conduct menstrual health and hygiene awareness sessions for girls, women, families and communities.
Menstrual Hygiene Support
Improve access to essential menstrual hygiene products for underserved communities.
Monthly Pad Support
Provide free sanitary pads every month to 200 economically disadvantaged women.
Protect Girls’ Education
Help ensure menstruation does not interrupt school attendance, learning or personal development.
Create Safe Conversations
Encourage girls and women to speak openly and confidently about menstrual health.
Community Engagement
Work with schools, families, community leaders and local communities to create lasting social change.
Creating Impact Beyond Pad Distribution
Alongside product support, we focus on knowledge, behaviour change, confidence and dignity.
200
Women supported every month
2,400
Women supported every year
Our annual goal is to support 2,400 women through monthly sanitary-pad assistance while creating lasting awareness, confidence and dignity.
Why Amar Meyebela?
Why Amar Meyebela?
For millions of girls and women, menstruation is still surrounded by silence, stigma, misinformation and financial barriers. Amar Meyebela seeks to replace these barriers with knowledge, compassion, access and dignity.
Our Belief
- 🌸 Menstruation is natural.
- 🧼 Menstrual hygiene is essential.
- ❤️ Dignity is every woman’s right.
🌸 Amar Meyebela
Breaking Taboos • Creating Awareness • Restoring Dignity • Empowering Women
An Initiative of Poribes Foundation
Join the Initiative →Seminars Details
MENSTRUAL TABOOS – BREAKING DOWN THE STIGMA
A Social Awareness Seminar by Poribes Foundation
On 7th June 2026, Poribes Foundation organised a meaningful social awareness seminar on “Menstrual Taboos – Breaking Down the Stigma” at the Rabindra Tirtha Auditorium.
The seminar brought together distinguished voices from diverse fields to create awareness about menstrual health, challenge deep-rooted social taboos, and promote dignity, knowledge and open conversations around menstruation.
Esteemed Speakers & Guests
- Mrs. Nandini Bhattacharya – MRA
- Dr. Nandini Bhowmik – A distinguished indologist, Thespian and Sanskrit professor
- Ishita Sanyal – Psychologist and Mental Health Activist
- Tahrina Nasreen – International Swimmer
- Mrs. Atrayee Chakraborti – Psychologist
- Mrs. Jaya Seal – Actress
- Mr. Bibek Chatterjee – Writer
- Ms. Bitasta Ghosal – Writer
- Mr. Malay Das – Artist
The event highlighted the importance of menstrual health education, social awareness and collective action in creating a society where menstruation is treated as a natural biological process rather than a source of shame or stigma.
AMAR MEYEBELA AWARD
As part of its commitment to recognising individuals who make a meaningful contribution to women's health and dignity, Poribes Foundation honoured Ms. Priti Minj with the “Amar Meyebela Award” for her dedicated work towards promoting female hygiene and menstrual health awareness among women and girls in the tea gardens of North Bengal.
Through such initiatives, Poribes Foundation continues its endeavour to break menstrual taboos, empower women and girls, and build a more informed, compassionate and inclusive society.
