Kintampo Municipal Education Department in collaboration with the Municipal Health Service has organized this year’s international world Menstrual Health and Hygiene Management Day under the theme; “Imagine a period friendly Ghana, it’s time to end period poverty”.
This important programme was graced with very important stakeholders from all works of life such as chiefs and queen mother students, teachers and other people who came and donated to supporters this important programme at the Kintampo Municipal Assembly hall.
The Chairperson who was a young and influential lady who undertook all her educational ladder very successfully from the Municipality and has become a role model to most of the young girls in the municipality was the chairperson to this nationwide organized programme.
Madam Latifatu Alhassan, in her welcome address, highlighted the importance of collective efforts in creating a supportive environment for all girls and women.
She said, menstrual health is a crucial aspect of our lives as women and it is a natural and normal part of growing up, yet it often comes with challenges and misunderstandings.
Many girls face difficulties in managing their periods due to a lack of access to sanitary products, inadequate knowledge, and social taboos, and that these challenges can affect your health, education and overall well-being.
Mrs. Alhassan added that today we can build a period-friendly Ghana as the theme stated in Ghana where no girl has to miss school because of her period, where every girl feels confident and empowered to manage her menstrual health with dignity and that breaking the silence and stigma surrounding menstruation and having open and honest conversation about menstrual health and there is no shame about it.