24/09/2026
Chhaupadi Prathaa is a tradition that banishes women.
In parts of western Nepal, women and girls are still forced to leave their homes during their period, considered "impure" and sent to isolated huts called chhaugoth, often without warmth, safety, or basic hygiene. It's linked to real dangers of exposure, animal attacks, and even death.
Nepal's Supreme Court banned the practice in 2005. The government criminalised it in 2017. And yet it persists, kept alive by deeply rooted beliefs, limited education, and resistance to change in rural communities.
This is exactly the kind of harm the Dignity Project exists to push back against because period poverty and period stigma doesn’t just cost girls their comfort. It costs them safety, education, and sometimes their lives.
No girl should be exiled for something her body does naturally.