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Nana, Saatchi & Saatchi ME ‘listen, adapt, design’ for young girls with autism

The 'Ruby Blooms' campaign by Nana and Saatchi & Saatchi Middle East offers a tactile, calming, sensory-led experience that prepares girls with autism for menstruation through gradual, intuitive engagement.

Nana Saatchi & Saatchi young girls with autism periods menstruation

Global hygiene and health company Nana, a brand of Essity, and Saatchi & Saatchi Middle East have launched Ruby Blooms, a sensory guidebook created to help young girls on the autism spectrum understand menstruation in a way that meets their sensory needs.

Period education often falls short when it comes to neurodivergent audiences. For young girls with autism, conventional approaches — typically reliant on verbal or clinical explanations — can trigger anxiety and sensory overload.

Ruby Blooms aims to offer an entirely new model: a tactile, calming, sensory-led experience that prepares girls for menstruation through gradual, intuitive engagement.

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Anup Oommen is the Editor of Campaign Middle East at Motivate Media Group, a well-reputed moderator, and a multiple award-winning journalist with more than 15 years of experience at some of the most reputable and credible global news organisations, including Reuters, CNN, and Motivate Media Group. As the Editor of Campaign Middle East, Anup heads market-leading coverage of advertising, media, marketing, PR, events and experiential, digital, the wider creative industries, and more, through the brand’s digital, print, events, directories, podcast and video verticals. As such he’s a key stakeholder in the Campaign Global brand, the world’s leading authority for the advertising, marketing and media industries, which was first published in the UK in 1968.