Breaking The Standard
In Lebanese dialect “Jeyetik” means “You’re menstruating”.
When we want to talk about something that we consider negative, we use other languages. That applies perfectly to periods, as we refer to them in French or English way more frequently.
The other word we have in Arabic for periods is طمث, an old word nobody uses or even knows.
Yi Shu Sayer Ma3ik!
Break the secretiveness around the word Jeyetik
By naming the initiative Jeyetik, people from different backgrounds, genders, and from all generations will read it on their phones or say it. They can say it and be shy, break a little laugh, but they said it out loud, maybe for the first time.
_“Jeyetik?” you might have whispered to your friend in class_
How We See The World
Our Mission
Up to ¾ of the population is struggling to pay for basic necessities like electricity and food which prices increased to *600% per Human Rights Watch.
You could hear people sharing their struggle -to their peers or to the media- about the difficulty of paying rent or getting food. Yet we never mention a specific basic product that can affect women’s lives tremendously – a menstrual pad. The presence, absence, quality and abundance of a menstrual pad can make a woman hate her body, physically and mentally seclude her from society, make her stay at home because she’s menstruating or she’s obliged to get out go to work or university, with a pad that’s been used for too long, making her prone to infections.
It can be solved at the root. To reduce period poverty, we need to give women access to all kinds of menstrual products (medications, healthcare, etc.) and access to information about their bodies.
Just a little bit of effort
What We Do and How We Do It
What do we do?
- We provide free menstrual products, from pads (it is the most used option), tampons and now reusable pads.
- We raise awareness about the reasons and consequences of bad menstrual hygiene, and how we can do better as citizens and as actors.
How do we do it?
Individuals, companies, or NGOs trust us with the safe and fair distribution of their donations. We accept in-kind donations and cash. Why cash? We buy pads in bulk from local suppliers. That way:
- We can get more pads, for less than you would buy it in a store here or abroad, and cover more girls.
- We’re buying from a local business.
do you need more proof?
Official Publications and Issues
A nationally representative survey conducted by Human Rights Watch between November 2021 and January 2022 found that the median household reported a monthly income of just US$122. Seventy percent of households said they had difficulty making ends meet or were always behind on basic expenses, and 22 percent said that they sometimes or often did not have enough to eat in the past month.
In 2022, Lebanon’s ranking fell from an upper-middle-income country to a lower-middle-income country for the first time in 25 years, according to World Bank rankings.
More than 80 per cent of people in Lebanon are living in multidimensional poverty, and there is deprivation across many areas including health care, electricity, water, sanitation, transportation, connectivity and having a means of income.
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Jeyetik is a non-profit organization to support women’s monthly menstrual cycles. In Lebanese dialect “Jeyetik” means “You’re on your cycle”