A Kaduna-based Non-Governmental Organisation, Lizzy Anche Foundation, has donated menstrual pads to 50 vulnerable secondary school girls in the state.
Chief Executive Officer of the foundation, Elizabeth Anche, who made the donation at Government Secondary School ungwa Sauri, said the gesture was to commemorate the 2022 Menstrual Hygiene Day.
She added that the gesture was in collaboration with the State Contributory Health Management Authority Scheme.
According to her, the distribution is also to create awareness on menstrual hygiene and improve their healthcare.
She added that a growing body of evidence shows that girls’ inability to manage their menstrual hygiene in schools, results in school absenteeism, which in turn has severe economic costs on their lives and on the country.
In many cultures, menstruating women are considered impure and are systematically excluded from participating in every-day activities, such as education, employment, and cultural and religious practices.
In his remarks, the Director-General of Kaduna State Contributory Health Management Authority, Abubakar Hassan, urged the students to help sensitize their parents on the contributory health scheme to actualise universal health coverage in the state.
He described the contributory health scheme is a way of contributing funds for the payment of healthcare services by all residents of the state.
The Principal of the school, Ladi Musa, thanked the foundation and government for the gesture extended to the girls .
She said, “We are grateful because we have never experienced such gesture in this community.
” Most of the girls here are vulnerable as their parents cannot afford kits for them.
” Seeing this gesture today shows that the government has not forgotten us and we will forever be grateful.
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