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Nigeria’s First Lady, Sen. Oluremi Tinubu, connected Thursday successful Owerri, launched a menstrual wellness intervention, themed “Flow with Confidence,” nether the Renewed Hope Initiative (RHI).
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the programme is aimed astatine achieving a one-year proviso of sanitary pads to 370,000 schoolgirls successful agrarian communities nationwide.
The RHI procured the customised disposable sanitary pads, worthy N2.5 billion, from a section company, Uniglory Nigeria Ltd., to beforehand home production.
Speaking astatine the motorboat successful Owerri, the First Lady emphasised that the involution aimed astatine ensuring that nary miss should miss schoolhouse due to the fact that of her inability to spend sanitary products.”
Mrs Tinubu, who was represented by the Wife of Imo Governor, Mrs Chioma Uzodinma, said it was unacceptable that girls missed classes owed to menstrual issues.
“The programme is captious due to the fact that girls successful agrarian areas miss schoolhouse days each period due to the fact that they cannot spend sanitary pads, starring to them falling down oregon dropping out.
“Each authorities and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) volition person 10,000 packs of the pads for organisation to deserving girls successful agrarian communities, with the extremity of supporting their education.
“The inaugural believes that nary miss should ever person to take betwixt her dignity and her education,” she said.
Mrs Tinubu, who stressed the nexus betwixt menstrual wellness and world success, said the programme’s occurrence required assemblage ownership.
The First Lady specifically appealed to Local Government Area chairmen to instrumentality ownership of the involution to guarantee supplies reached the close beneficiaries.
She stressed that the pads were not to beryllium sold nether immoderate circumstances and urged accepted and spiritual leaders to show the organisation workout successful their communities.
The programme launched simultaneously successful 8 states: Borno, Cross River, Ekiti, Enugu, Gombe, Imo, Kebbi, and Lagos, with different states acceptable to travel upon receiving their supplies.
Mrs Tinubu charged the beneficiaries to enactment successful school, survey hard, enactment 1 another, and ne'er let shame oregon stigma to instrumentality distant their confidence.
Earlier successful a lecture, a Consultant Obstetrician/Gynaecologist, Dr Emily Akuabia-Nzeribe, said the programme would empower women, heighten biology sustainability and enactment susceptible communities.
Akuabia-Nzeribe, who spoke connected menstruation confidence, advised secondary schoolhouse girls contiguous astatine the lawsuit to support steadfast hygiene and not beryllium ashamed.
She explained that menstruation came with physical, social, economic, and intelligence burdens.
“The carnal boarding could travel with immoderate wellness risks and infections, arsenic good arsenic infertility, if not decently managed.
“For the societal burden, it comes with stigmas, favoritism and bullying,” she said.
The advisor noted that RHI was much focused connected treating the economical load that came with menstruation.
“The economical load of play poorness occurs among galore young girls, who cannot spell to schoolhouse due to the fact that they bash not person the due menstrual merchandise to use.
“Some of them enactment astatine location due to the fact that their parents cannot spend the close menstrual products they need.
“This is the occupation the renewed anticipation inaugural is trying to lick and we indispensable beryllium grateful for that,” she added.
NAN reports that the programme was themed: “Empowering School Girls done Menstrual Health.”
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