About 100 female secondary school students in Jos have undergone training on menstrual hygiene, how to handle menstrual outbreaks in schools, and stigmatization attached to menstrual periods, among other things.
The event, which took place yesterday at Full Assurance International Academy in Jos North, was organised by the Hope Alive Care and Tadd Child Watch Foundation Abuja.
The event also featured the distribution of sanitary pads to the students, establishment of menstrual station and online platform for meeting students’ menstrual needs in school and also giving necessary counselling.
Amina Ibrahim of Hope Alive Care, who gave the overview of the programme, said it is an awareness creation on menstruation and its associated stigma and mental health among students.
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She said the NGO equally provided a menstrual kit so that they can begin a menstrual station in their school, adding that the menstrual kit is like a first aid box that will be handled by a staff and selected students in order to carter for girls with menstrual needs/challenges.
“This is because a lot of time female students leave school whenever they get their menstrual period in school because they don’t have the materials, resources or adequate knowledge to handle it while in school,” she said.
On his part, Ocheja Yahaya of the Tadd Child Watch Foundation Abuja said the age range of the targeted female students is between 10 and 18 years, and that they will equally cover several schools across the city/state.
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