AngloGold Ashanti Iduapriem Mine has celebrated this year’s Menstrual Hygiene Day with girls from Basic and Senior High Schools in the Tarkwa Nsuaem Municipality. The Mine called on all stakeholders to work together to address the barriers that hindered access to hygienic menstrual products. Poor menstrual hygiene, according to the Mine, did not only affect the well-being of women and girls but also undermined their educational opportunities and social status.
“Together for a Period Friendly World”, is the theme for this year’s celebration. At a durbar organized by operators of the Mine to commemorate the event in Akyempim, Mrs Rose Amoah, Senior Manager Finance, in a speech read on behalf of the Managing Director of AngloGold Ashanti Iduapriem Mine, noted that menstrual hygiene was a fundamental issue that required collective action and partnership to address effectively. She explained that the Mine was devoted in playing her part in promoting menstrual hygiene and breaking down the barriers that stood in the way of a period friendly world.
Over the last two years, the Mine, in collaboration with GIZ, had consistently distributed free sanitary pads to adolescent girls in eight basic schools within the Mine’s catchment communities every month, in line with their commitment to ensure that no adolescent girl missed school. Mrs Amoah said last year week-long activities were implemented to mark menstrual hygiene day, where they reached out to adolescent girls from the b.
