Facilitating women inside religious places during their periods may still be a taboo in countries but it is heartening to note that a prominent UK Sikh Gurdwara has taken a revolutionary stand on busting this period taboo.

This welcome step is the brainchild of a Sikh woman campaigner Manjit Kaur Gill, Founder and CEO of of Binti International, a charitable organisation which promotes and ensures equality among all those visiting Gurdwara to pay obeisance. It took this initiative in association with Peter Virdee Foundation.

Reported by Alia Waheed in glamourmagazine.co.uk, the Khalsa Jatha Sikh Gurdwara, Shepherds Bush, London, the oldest in the UK, has earned the distinction of becoming the first in the world to initiate open talks about taboo surrounding menstruation and launch a period policy for women devotees.

Binti International aims to involve more UK Gurdwaras and Temples and also to spread this initiative to India. Plans are afoot to organize menstrual health awareness workshops. The Sikh congregation is being encouraged to add menstrual products to the items being already donated by them to the Gurdwara.