Mrs Louisa Amoah, Executive Director of Girls Shall Grow, Obuasi-based NGO, has stressed the need to demystify the issue of menstruation and make it an open subject for people to discuss. She said it was time all the mysteries surrounding menstruation were brought to the fore to enable young girls to have better understanding and confidence of themselves during that period of natural phenomenon. “We realize that there is a whole hostile environment making it very difficult for girls to freely talk about menstruation and their experiences, so we are seizing opportunities like this to sensitize the girls to freely speak out whiles advising the public to make it easier for issues of menstruation to be discussed”, she told journalists in Obuasi, on the sidelines of a symposium to mark world menstrual day.
It was organized by Girls Shall Grow in collaboration with the SRC Women Commission of the Obuasi campus of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). The symposium, which was under the theme “together for a period friendly world”, brought together about 300 students from KNUST- Obuasi campus, Junior High and Senior High schools in Obuasi, as well as health personnel to share their opinions on how to maintain menstrual hygiene. Mrs Amoah bemoaned the level of stigmatization and misconceptions associated with menstruation and said her organizations was at the forefront of campaigns to sensitize young girls on the need to maintain personal hygiene and .
