The appearance of a girl’s menstrual period should be
something that every girl should look out for since it comes to confirm
womanhood and ability to have children but is not so for many girls in most rural
parts of Ghana, the orphanage and poor homes.
These girls miss 5days of school every month because they
can’t afford to buy sanitary towels to help hold the blood, they therefore
resort to other means which is unhygienic bringing them lot of reproductive
health issues like urinary tract infection and cervical cancer. Some of these
girls uses old cloths, maize cobs, tissue paper, exercise books etc. which
can’t hold the blood thereby making them soil themselves.
The fear of getting their clothes soil deter them from
attending school for fear of their friends knowing that they are menstruating
especially their male counterparts. This makes them unproductive since they can
neither go to school nor go out of their homes.
This five days of no school makes it difficult for these
girls to concentrate and match up to their other colleagues especially the
males since they don’t get to learn or hear their teachers teach topics needed
for a particular level. This lacking frustrate some of these girls to drop out
of school.
As part of Solutions for Life Initiative Ghana (SFLIG) quest
to “Make Every Life Count” SFLIG is seeking support to create a PAD BANK to
provide sanitary towels for girls in the orphanages and selected communities at
the beginning of every semester so they can stay focus on their studies, get their
confidence built and for them to stand up to their male classmates
academically.
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