Coalition of NGOs in Water and Sanitation (CONIWAS), in collaboration with Hope of Africa, has coached young girls in Amasaman Cluster of Schools on how to keep themselves healthy and hygienic during their menstrual period. The sensitization on menstrual hygiene was to educate students on how to wear sanitary pads, dispose them and how to use other alternatives when they can not afford sanitary products. Mrs Basilia Nanbigne Adu-wusu, Executive Secretary for CONIWAS, in her remarks, said menstruation was a normal thing that every adolescent girl would experience and that they should prepare themselves adequately towards getting their dignity kits with extra pant, pad, paper, soap, hand sanitizers and rubber bag as they got out of home.
She asked girls to practice personal hygiene by bathing twice daily, regularly wash their underwear and dry them in the sun and to educate their peers who were yet to experience menstrual periods. She said this at the commemoration of this year’s Menstrual Hygiene Day in Amasaman, it was on the national theme: “Imagine a Period Friendly Ghana”. The Executive Secretary said the organization was working with the Ghana Standards Authority to provide quality materials for sewing of reusable cloth pad.
She said even though there were calls for removal of tax, it was prudent for stakeholders to provide and improve WASH facilities in schools for effective menstrual hygiene Mrs Adu-wusu urged mothers to educate the girl-child during menstruation .
