Joyce Konadu Idun (in sash) poses with staff and pupils of one of the schools while displaying the donated items
Aid for Girls Foundation, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) that promotes Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health, has donated items worth thousands of cedis to five schools in the Tema West Municipality.
The items comprising boxes of various types of sanitary towels were distributed among Baatsona JHS A, Baatsona JHS B, Kotobabi JHS, Old Lashibi JHS and Old Lashibi Primary schools in commemoration of this year’s World Menstrual Hygiene Day.
The Chief Executive Officer of Aid for Girls Foundation, who is also Girl Child Education Ambassador, Joyce Konadu Idun,
in her addresses, touched extensively on Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health.
Together with Ms. Linda Boateng, an author and CEO of Ama Renew, LLC Mentor and community advocate in Maryland, USA, they urged the girls to build themselves up academically and avoid any form of social interaction with the opposite sex that could lead to pregnancy, taking into account their adolescent ages.
“Your country, school and parents need you. You have to study hard, eat the right kind of food so that you will have a sound mind to study to become a better woman in future,” said the Aid for Girls CEO.
She added, “You are girls, beautiful, intelligent and fertile. You are menstruating, if you joke, you can easily become pregnant, so take very good care of yourselves.”
Girls’ Education Coordinator for Tema West GES, Ms. Yacoba Otoo, in like manner, admonished the girls to be particular about their Sexual Reproductive Health as well as esteem education.
Assistant head teacher of Baatsona JHS A, Rev. Amos Bortier, expressed profuse thanks to the Aid for Girls Foundation CEO who is also a beauty queen (Queen of Tertiary Africa 2019) for the gesture.
He urged other individuals and corporate organisations to follow her shining example.
By Kofi Aduonum