FEEM Initiative

Our event yesterday brought together close to 500 girls from some of the junior high schools in the Bolgatanga Municipality.

It was a fun-filled day with thoughtful lessons on youthful exuberance and the challenges surrounding uninformed sexual decisions. We equally distributed sanitary pads to most of the girls.

It is our hope that this will continue either quarterly or yearly because as teenage pregnancies have skyrocketed to about 2436, we have a lot of work to do.

During the Menstrual hygiene day (28th May), we planned a number of activities which included enlightening young women in Junior High Schools on the menstrual 🩸 process and the menstrual cycle as well as distributed sanitary pads to them. We held these activities in Kongo in the Upper East Region and Cape Coast in the Central Region of Ghana. Equally part of our program was a collaboration with AfriPads and Girls Rise to distribute reusable sanitary pads to girls in Malawi. I wish to indicate that we successfully held the Ghana projects in May and have equally been able to execute the Malawi project now which feels us with much gratitude.

The reusable sanitary kits that can last them for long while. This we hope will go a long way to assist the girls in their education by helping them concentrate without having to skip school because of menstruation 🩸. We also hope girls who are met with pressures from men to negotiate their bodies for menstrual products will have a strong confidence to object. Please find pictures. (FEEM) Initiative.