If you don’t have a sanitary pad and you are using your tower, make sure to wash it very clean” said Ms. Orfina Foday, program officer Community Health Initiative (CHI). Menstrual Hygiene Day is an annual awareness day on May 28 to highlight the importance of good menstrual hygiene management at a global level. The theme of this year’s Menstrual Hygiene Day is “Action and Investment in Menstrual Hygiene and Health.” In Liberia Paramount Young Women Initiative and Community Health Initiative jointly celebrated the day with high school students drawn from several schools including the Calvary Chapel Mission School in Paynesville, Carver Mission Academy and Action Faith Institute. It is also good that as female, we should seek advice from other who knows about menstrual hygiene” she said. Also speaking, Hamel Yardanmah thanked the Paramount Young Women Initiative and Community Health Initiative in seeing the need to celebrate this year’s menstrual Hygiene day with students.

Source: Front Page Africa June 04, 2021 07:30 UTC