A consumer goods company, Procter and Gamble (P&G) has reaffirmed its commitment to
improve menstrual hygiene management, particularly among school girls and other vulnerables in the country.
The company also said it would continue to educate people against the false belief in some African communities that associate women’s menstruation with taboo.
The company stated these during its recent menstrual sensitisation outreach in some secondary schools in the federal capital territory. Abuja.
According to a statement signed by the company’s Corporate Communications Director, Sub-Saharan Africa(AMA), Cassie Jaganyi, there are many African communities where menstruation is still a taboo subject, and because of that many girls lack the right information about puberty and consequently unprepared for their first period.
She said that was why the company partnered with the Federal Ministry of Women’s Affairs to take the outreach programme down to schools to educate and empower young girls with proper menstrual hygiene management practices and dispel the myth that considers girls’ menstruation unclean.
She said the company believes that doing so would encourage girls not to be absent from school when they are menstruating and also build their confidence in associating with others.
Jaganyi said the outreach programme is part of the company’s social intervention projects on health and education to commemorate the 30th anniversary of its Always brand in Africa.
She said the company through the initiative had reached more than 30,000 Nigerian girls most of whom were students in puberty education and also given them sanitary pads free of charge.
“We want them to be in schools and committed to their studies and other lawful activities that will prepare them well for the future,” she stressed.
Jaganyi urged other stakeholders to join hands towards creating a world where menstrual hygiene won’t be a barrier to education and personal growth for girls in Nigeria.
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