We are currently a community of approximately 450 women from 37 different countries. However, these numbers do not include all women and families that have found at Irida a “resting place” during their long journey to safety, peace, and freedom.
The Irida Centre provides individualized psycho-social support, protection services, and legal counseling, based on our members' unique needs. At the same time, we give the opportunity to refugee and asylum-seeking women to develop their skills and access language & literacy classes, employability pieces of training, recreational activities, and a strong community network.
We are in the midst of planning a series of classes with the women around personal health and period care with a Midwife and Gynaecologist. This will be a way of sensitively introducing the concept of menstrual cups to the women, as for most of whom menstrual cups will be a very foreign concept.
Our aim is to make sustainable, long lasting change and to empower people to have a better period. At the Irida Centre, this vision in action is to introduce the women to menstrual cups in a safe, open environment where they are able to ask questions and learn how to properly use and clean their cup. To begin this journey with them, at their pace, so that we are able to leave them feeling empowered and confident with their period.
