President John Mahama has tagged his newly launched National Sanitary Pad Distribution Programme as an initiative that will remove the powerful barrier to girl-child education in Ghana.
Launching the initiative in Accra on Thursday, April 24, 2025, the president said female students would not have to absent themselves from school as a result of lacking sanitary pads.
According to him, female students who were unable to afford the pads stayed away from school for fear of soiling themselves or becoming a “laughingstock of their peers”.
He said the least the government could do to help the girl child was to support them with whatever they needed “to be able to go through it with dignity and with hygiene”.
“It should not be a barrier to education or self-achievement. And that is why this programme exists to remove one of the silent yet powerful obstacles standing in the way of our girl-child dreams. We are acting today to restore hope.
“Hope to the girls who thought they had to sit out for several days every month. Hope to parents who worried about how to provide these essential products to their daughters and hope to a nation that wants every child to rise regardless of their background or their gender,” the head of state said.
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
