By Ralph Sesay
Government Municipal, Laura Dove and Ansarul Islamic Secondary Schools in Freetown, are the latest to benefit from the distribution of three hundred menstrual hygiene packs for school girls in Sierra Leone.
Orange Sierra Leone is donating the items in line with a commitment they made during the launching of the Free Quality Education to provide government with USD1.5.million materials support.
The support towards menstrual hygiene of girls in schools is one of the five projects designed by Orange Sierra Leone and the Ministry of Education.
The year 2019 will witness the distribution of 2,000 hygiene packs to twenty schools and the remaining four years will also lead to the distribution of the remaining 8,000 packs to other eighty schools in the country.
Later this year and earlier next year, Orange Sierra Leone is also expected to roll out the other four projects across the country, all geared towards improving the innovation ability of the children, provision of rural electrification to rural schools and education of teachers online.
School authorities at Municipal, Laura Dove and Ansarul Islamic Secondary School in Freetown lauded the efforts of Orange Sierra Leone for venturing to help in an area which was used to be a no go area in the life of the girls.
They acknowledged the fact that girls need the eco-friendly hygiene pads to stay in schools, especially when such a period has proved very difficult for them to stay in school.
Vice Principal, Government Municipal Secondary School, Mr. Martin Musa while thanking Orange Sierra Leone appealed for WASH facilities for the girls which, according to him, are non-existent in most schools.