World Menstrual Hygiene Day: Adolescent girls want government to Reduce taxes on sanitary pads

Junior High School girls in the Kwabere East municipality in the Ashanti Region have called on government to reduce taxes on menstrual pads to make them affordable and accessible to underprivileged girls and young women.

They said, reducing the taxes imposed on sanitary pads to enable young girls have easy access to the pads. They said sanitary pads are very expensive and parents cannot afford to buy enough pads for their adolescent girls, and this can lead the girls to engage in sexual relationships with boys or men who eventually get them pregnant.

According to them,They misses classes during their menstrual period,
some girls even uses rags during their period due to lack of funds to purchase disposable sanitary pads.

Speaking to media In an interview when “The Mother’s Daughter Foundation in collaboration with Garden city university college, Mantrac Ghana and Sunda international company Limited presented 822 pads to selected five junior High schools in the Kwabere East municipality to commemorate this year’s Menstrual Hygiene Day,This is what the students have to say

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On her part, Chief Executive officer of The “Mother’s Daughter Foundation” Madam Theresa Morena Darko also said as the whole world celebrating Menstrual day there is a need to educate young girls, particularly those who have not started menstruating, to start educating them so that when they get into it, they shouldn’t be found wanting,”

She urged the young to have confidence when they are in monthly flow

This is what Chief Executive officer of The Mother’s Daughter Foundation Madam Theresa Morena Darko had to say

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Finally, Mrs Gladys Oteng Nkrumah of Mantrac Ghana and Thomas Amiah Junior of Sunda international company Limited who donated sanitary pads to support the Mother’s Daughter Foundation commorate this year menstrual Hygiene Day said this forms part of their social coorperate responsibility.

This is what Mrs Gladys Oteng Nkrumah of Mantrac Ghana and Thomas Amiah Junior of Sunda international company Limited have to say

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