TAX ON SANITARY PADS DEPRIVES GIRLS OF EDUCATION, GOVERNMENT MUST SUBSIDISE TAXES ON SANITARY PADS TO MAKE IT AFFORDABLE FOR THE TEENS. Queen mother appeals.
To mark the International Menstrual Hygiene Day, the Queen-mother of Dwenease, Fanteakwa South District, in the Eastern Region, Nana Appeaa Sarpomaa Kumakuma, in collaboration with the Nurses of the Dwenease Chips Compound, implemented Menstrual Hygiene Education and Donation of Free Sanitary Pads, close to 500 Adolescent School going girls at the Fanteakwa South District.
According to Nana Appeaa Sarpomaa Kumakuma, education on Menstrual Hygiene and scraping Taxes on sanitary pads will make it affordable to vulnerable women and school girls who are then forced to skip school, to understand menstrual hygiene as well as afford sanitary pads to keep them in school when they have their period, furthermore, presented sanitary pads to some female Teens.
A Nurse, Midwifery Officer from Dwenease Chips Compound, Mrs. Lydia Yeboah, in delivering her speech lamented that teenage pregnancy is on the rise in the Dwenease Community and it environs due to Galamsey activities within the area and advised the children to avoid engaging themselves with men in order to prevent teenage pregnancy.
According to her, some parents encouraged their children to go for Galamsey guys to enable them get money, so therefore plead with the Parents to exercise their maximum responsibilities to ensure that the teens abstain from pregnancy.
In furtherance, She also appealed to the Chiefs and the Queen-mothers at the area to use their power to make a law that will prevent Teenagers from staying outside during midnights to avoid Teenage Pregnancy.
Conclusively, the Fanteakwa South District Chief Executive (DCE). Hon. Ernest Ofosu, in adding his voice advised, the youth to avoiding all kinds of criminal activities and also used the opportunity to appealed to parents to take their parental role serious for the children to become perfect future leaders in Ghana at large.
