Eastern Regional GBA: Free pads needed to protect girls from exploitation

The
Ghana
Bar
Association
(GBA)
has
called
on
the
government
to
provide
free
sanitary
pads
to
all
basic
and
senior
high
school
girls
and
subsidise
the
cost
for
tertiary
institution
students.

This
call
comes
after
the
Eastern
Regional
chapter
of
the
GBA
discovered
that
some
individuals
are
exploiting
the
high
cost
of
sanitary
pads
to
manipulate
and
sexually
exploit
vulnerable
school
girls
who
cannot
afford
them.

President
of
the
Eastern
Regional
Ghana
Bar
Association,
Francis
Polly
led
a
team
to
distribute
over
800
free
sanitary
pads
to
seven
deprived
basic
schools
in
Koforidua.

He
emphasised
that
the
association
will
continue
to
donate
sanitary
pads
to
schools.
He
urged
the
government
to
make
them
freely
available
to
girls
in
primary
and
Junior
high
schools
and
subsidised
for
senior
high
school
students.

“This
is
from
the
bar
Councillors
service,
at
our
last
meeting
we
resolved
that
we
spend
and
celebrate
Father’s
Day
by
donating
sanitary
pads
to
female
schools.
We
chose
seven
schools
within
Koforidua
and
this
is
the
third
school
we
visited,
tomorrow
we
will
continue.

“We
realised
that
the
pads
are
now
very
expensive
and
the
girls
and
parents
cannot
afford
them
and
some

unscrupulous

young
men
are
taking
advantage
of
that,
promising
the
girls
that
they
will
get
them
money
to
buy
pads
and
take
advantage
of
those
girls
so
we
thought
we
would
set
the
pace
by
doing
donations.”

“This
is
not
the
first
we
are
doing
it
we
are
going
to
continue
and
then
do
more.
They
should
hurry
up
and
even
make
sanitary
pads
free
for
girls
in
the
primary
and
the
JHS
level,
they
should
make
it
free
for
them
and
then
subsidised
for
those
in
SHS.
The
government
should
distribute
it
to
them
monthly
basis
for
free.”

Mr
Polly
warned
that
failing
to
provide
sanitary
pads
puts
girls
at
risk
of
health
hazards
and
exploitation
by
predatory
individuals,
adding
that
parents
should
also
support
their
daughters
by
providing
them
with
sanitary
pads
regularly.




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