The government must provide free sanitary pads for girls in senior high schools as part of the Free Senior High School programme, a youth and family-focused non-governmental organization has said.
The organization, J Initiative said studies have indicated that 95% of girls absent themselves from school when menstruating due to lack of money to buy sanitary towels.
“It is sad to note that the Free Senior High School programme that seeks to remove cost barriers to education and ensure that no child is left behind has woefully failed to include the provision of sanitary pads into the list of things that the government will be catering for under the programme,” the NGO said in a statement signed by its Executive Director, Awo Aidam Amenyah to back their proposal.
It further said that Ghana can learn from Kenya which provides free sanitary towels to schoolgirls in deprived areas.
The statement added that the lack of free sanitary towels for schoolgirls “can impact negatively on the Free SHS programme,” explaining that: “As poor menstrual hygiene management can result in absenteeism, poor performance, hamper gender parity in education and the overall achievement of the Free Senior High School programme.”
Source: Pulse Ghana
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The children should stay home and wait for the pads before they go to school!!! Who are these llunatics parading as an NGO!! They are thick.
VERY IRRESPONSIBLE NGO. LOOSE TALK.
Oh ho....human being... someone is giving you a free SHS.. and you can not by a common pad for the child... why are Ghanaians so cheap... how much is pad...compared to boarding fees... this corrupt NGO'S too taking money from poor people and paying themselves big is all they know... why not the NGO'S provide the pad.
It appears in this town nothing is enough for us. What is the use of them as an NGO then? What ***barred word*** koraaa is this? So if the government doesn't provide sanitary pads the girls will stop schooling? They should quit.
The government wont do it wai, if a parent cant afford pad for her child then she should give her cloth aaaba, u want Nana to be labelled on pads like was done to JM. why then dont u say the government should buy provisions too for them