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Strengthening the capacity of 10 schools in managing menstrual hygiene in Assin Central Municipality of Central Region Ghana
Although menstruation is an integral part of human life, it is often
considered a taboo and has met many negative cultural hindrances and
attitudes. Women and girls in the Assin Central Municipality
especially those in school suffer most from stigma and lack of
services and facilities to help them cope with the physical and
psychological pains. Other challenges include inadequate preparations
for the young girls who have not yet menstruated, lack of materials to
manage menstrual hygiene, lack of private space and wash rooms , as
well as inappropriate facilities for disposal of menstrual materials.
The project therefore responds to these challenges by building
the capacity of 10 schools and teachers to improve and uphold
menstrual hygiene management among 1000 girls selected from public
schools in vulnerable communities.
Proposed activities to achieve the goal include
i) Facilitate training sessions among beneficiary girls and
senior women teachers to impact skills on other pupils,
ii)
supporting and training girls to locally make reusable sanitary
pads:
iii) Setting up welfare counselling rooms in all the 10
schools to provide psychological and emotional support for girls in
menstrual period, and
iv) Conduct community advocacy and
sensitization durbar on menstrual hygiene management.
1) How will you define success for this program?
The menstrual hygiene project will define success by the
i. Increase in the number of schools and senior women teachers
who are equipped to teach menstrual hygiene and its management
ii. Improvement in school attendance of girls at age of menstruation
iii) Reduced stigma and isolation of girls from boys due to improved
knowledge and understanding on menstrual hygiene iv) Increase in the
number of school girls who are able to manufacture re-usable sanitary
pads v) Improvement in access to responsive information on sexual and
reproductive health including menstrual hygiene among school girls and
teenagers vii) Increase in access to hygienic and sanitary menstrual
materials among menstruating girls
2) Provide an explanation of
how this project is innovative within your local context, within a
class of similar programs, or in its overall approach.
As girls resort to the use of old cloth, dirty napkins and
other un-hygienic materials as means of coping with menstruation, the
project will actively engage the beneficiary girls to learn the skills
of making re-usable sanitary pad which is relatively a new concept in
the Municipality. The girls will be encouraged through project
assignments to replicate the skills at household and community levels
by teaching peers, siblings, and parents. In addition, the project
will through the welfare counseling room, provide emotional and
psychological support to girls who menstruate during school sessions.
The counselling room will be unique to the beneficiary school because
all the programs on menstrual hygiene focuses on information sessions
without provision of ‘tangible’ service or asset. Though the primary
targets are girls, the project will sensitize boys on the need to see
menstruation as a normal phenomenon and do away with ridicule.
In summary, the innovative aspect of this project include
skills training for girls, provision of ‘tangible’ assets for schools
and inclusion of boys as indirect beneficiaries thus ensuring gender equity.
3) Why should we select your program?
The project will benefit from the oversight support of the
Assin Central Municipality Education Office to ensure that it
intended activities are fully accomplished.
The project has elements of sustainability which will guarantee
continuity even when the project has officially ended. These include
the transfer of skills in making local made reusable sanitary pads
at, school, household and community level; the stakeholder and
community involvement in knowledge sharing on menstrual hygiene
management ; and the establishment of welfare counseling rooms in each
of the 10 schools will boost teaching and learning on reproductive and
sexual health in the 10 beneficiary schools.
Currently RAHE-GHANA has registered the 1000 school girls for
the project. The project will carried out in 10 basic schools in the
Assin Central Municipality , in the Central Region of Ghana.
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