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Girls crossed the state person been urged to absorption much connected their menstrual wellness successful bid to turn into adulthood with assurance and besides look the aboriginal without being held backmost by challenges.
Glo Foundation, the societal concern limb of Globacom, made this the absorption of its engagement with girls successful prime schools crossed the state connected Wednesday connected the juncture of the observance of this year’s variation of the International Day of the Girl Child (IDGC) with the theme: “The GIRL I am, the changes I lead: GIRLS connected the frontline of crisis”.
The wellness consciousness run by Glo Foundation, moving with Health Aid for All Initiative (HAFAI), an NGO, targeted to amended 100 girls each successful selected schools successful Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, Benin, Owerri and Kaduna, connected menstrual hygiene.
“Menstrual periods should ne'er beryllium a crushed for a miss to suffer confidence, miss school, oregon consciousness held back. That’s wherefore we enactment this inaugural unneurotic wherever we besides provided menstrual attraction kits to the young girls successful these selected states, to guarantee that they person not conscionable what they need, but besides the reassurance that their maturation and dignity matter”, the Foundation disclosed successful a statement.
The selected schools included Community Secondary School, Port Harcourt; Methodist Government Junior High School, Agege, Lagos; LGEA Upper Basic School Kudansa, Maraban Rido, Kaduna; Oba Ewuare Grammar School, Oko Central, Benin City; Orogwe Secondary School, Owerri; and Junior Secondary School Dutse Sagwari, Abuja.
In Lagos, Dr Ugorchi Ohajuruka, a aesculapian doc and nationalist wellness specializer and Mrs Lara Rowland took the students of Methodist Government Junior High School, Agege, done basal tips connected menstrual wellness absorption and hygiene, sex based unit and intelligence health. They besides took clip to reply questions from the young girls.
Reacting, the Principal of the school, Mr Olawale Adebakin, harped connected the value of the absorption connected the wellness and well-being of the miss child. Said he: “There is simply a request to instrumentality attraction of the miss child. We request to support them truthful they volition beryllium utile for the improvement of the country”.
Similar experiences were shared successful the assorted locations selected by Glo Foundation for the observance successful Abuja, Kaduna, Benin, Owerri, and Port Harcourt.
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