The Ahafo Regional Coordinating Council (RCC), in collaboration with Netcentric Campaigns, has donated sanitary pads, exercise books, and school bags to over 300 brilliant but needy girls to support their education.
The Regional Minister, Charity Gardiner, led the presentation.
Over 500 sanitary pads, 5,000 exercise books, and 500 school bags were distributed.
Addressing staff of the Ghana Education Service, Ghana Health Service, Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) officials, schoolgirls, and other stakeholders in Goaso, Mrs. Gardiner acknowledged that some parents genuinely cannot afford sanitary pads.
As a result, she noted, some girls enter into relationships to obtain money for pads—situations that sometimes lead to teenage pregnancies and disrupt their education.
Beyond that, the Minister added that some girls are forced to stay out of school during menstruation because they cannot afford sanitary pads.
It is in response to such challenges that the RCC decided to support brilliant but needy girls in the region, to help guarantee them a better future.
In an interview with Adom News, the Education Director for Asunafo South District, Faustina Naana Forson, who shared the Minister’s concerns, described the trend as worrying.
She commended the RCC and Netcentric Campaigns for the initiative, which supports schoolgirls across the region’s six assemblies: Tano North, Tano South, Asutifi North, Asutifi South, Asunafo North, and Asunafo South.