FGA partners with Action on Empowerment, Plan International Ghana and Ghana Blind Union to organize sensitization workshop for girls with disabilities in Eastern Region on the use of reusable pads.

The cost of taxing  sanitary pad leads to  an increase in pricing every now and then in Ghana This has become a concerned to many Ghanaian Citizens especially some civil society groups like ours and law makers.  school  girls and unemployed   ladies with disabilities   we interacted with in Eastern Region during  menstrual hygiene sensitization workshop testified that they sort to the use of rags, toilet rolls and plantain leaves none of these materials are safe enough to protect them against bloodstains and virginal   infections. Apart from that some skip schools days when they know they’re not well protected during their menstrual periods. This need according to them give some men advantaged to lure girls into sex in exchange of money to buy pad, as a result, some girls become pregnant, dropout of school and abandoned by the men. It is against this background that  we   collaborated with Action on Empowerment, Plan International Ghana and Ghana Blind Union to organize a sensitization workshop  to sensitize girls with disabilities in Eastern Region how to use reusable pads. It was very exciting, a lot of experiences were shared with lessons learnt from that. The representation includes; Albinos, Total and Partial blind, Hearing Impaired (deaf) and those with Multiple Disabilities. They girls were also given a package each of the pads and alcohol based sanitizers. We can’ t  wait for our next visit.

The event in pictures