Menstrual Hygiene Day is observed every year on May 28th to raise awareness about the importance of good menstrual hygiene management. It aims to break the taboos around menstruation, promote education, and improve access to menstrual products and facilities for all, especially girls and women.
Dr. Adoma and her team today celebrated Menstrual Hygiene Day with the School of Islamic at Aboabo, in the Ashanti Region of Ghana.
In an interview with the Media9 Dr. Adoma “Advice to a Young Girl About Menstrual Health Awareness and why menstrual health is been celebrated ,we must celebrate and educate about menstruation because, for many young girls, it’s still treated like a taboo. This silence leads to ignorance, shame, and confusion, especially among young girls just starting their periods.
By holding events in schools to create awareness, we give girls the space to ask questions and share experiences. It helps them learn that menstruation is natural, normal, and nothing to be ashamed of. It also helps break the myths and stigma around it. The more we talk about it, the more empowered girls become to understand their bodies and take care of themselves.”
Dr.Adoma also advice Parents of their role , it’s absolutely crucial to model the behavior you want your children to adopt basic things like ensuring they bathe twice a day and maintain good hygiene.
More importantly, provide for their needs. We need you to buy sanitary towels and hygiene products for your daughters. It’s not okay to spend money at drinking spots or on flashy appearances and forget what truly matters. Personal hygiene items—sanitary pads, panties, undergarments—are not luxuries, they are necessities.
Our girls deserve to come to school with dignity. No girl should be in class, worried about how to manage her period because she doesn’t have access to pads. It’s unacceptable.
And to our leaders, policymakers, and people in positions of influence this message is for you too. How can we expect change when schools lack proper bathrooms where girls can safely change and manage their periods? Having pads is one thing, having the facilities to use them is another.
The power and resources are in your hands. Use them wisely. Do the right thing—for our children.
The headmaster for School of Islamic studies ,Mr Adul Rahman says the world hygienic day is purposely observed to educate and to make sure that the girl child is properly cared for when she gets into her menstrual cycle .
He said that this celebration has yielded a lot of benefits to the ladies and girls of that situation.
He disclosed that they had a bankpad for the ladies who stain themselves when in their menstrual period.
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