Blessing Iruoma, Port Harcourt
An International Bioscience Company, Longrich Global, yesterday, embarked on campaign for the healthcare of girl child across the country.
The leader of Paradigm Shift Global Team, a group under the Longrich global, Mrs. Doris Nwakuna, during her led programme titled: “Give a girl pad to secondary school students in Port Harcourt”, urged the government and well meaning Nigerians to support the campaign for the healthcare of the girl child.
Mrs Nwakuna who is an Ambassador for Longrich, said that the aim of distributing free products which included, sanitary pads, panty liners and infection indicators to secondary school girls in Port Harcourt, was to help indigent students in rural communities live a healthy menstrual life.
She disclosed that the initiative was borne out of a desire to checkmate the spread of diseases and infections resulting from the use of unhealthy sanitary and other products among indigent students.
“Having shared our experiences growing up as young girls, we know that it is not easy for girls to pass through the developmental stage through their menstrual cycles as students, considering the cramps, and the severe pain during the cycles.
“Some of these girls from rural communities use unhealthy materials like rags, papers among others because they can’t afford the healthy sanitary, and these exposes them to diseases like cervical cancer and infertility at adult age.
“We choose longrich product because we found out that the manufacturer produced it after carrying out a research on 13 years old girl who suffered cervical cancer,” she said.
Nwakuna explained that over 160 students of the community secondary school benefited from the programme.
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“What we have done today cannot be able to reach every girl in this community and other communities across the state, we are therefore calling on government, individuals, and all well meaning Nigerians who have passion for girl child to support us and reach more schools and communities in Rivers State,” she stated.
Mrs. Shitue Eniola, one of the facilitators of the programme who trained the girls on personal hygiene during their menstrual period urged the girls to make good use of what they learnt to have a healthy living.
Eniola also urged them to ensure they change their pads on or before four hours each day, calling on the society to reach every girl child with pads to enable them have a healthy adult lifestyle
In her remark, Mrs Faustian Onwuche, the Principal of Community Secondary School Abuloma, Port Harcourt, Rivers State expressed happiness for the gesture towards the school and appealed that it will be their pleasure to receive the group again.
The Senior Prefect of the School, Miss Promise Abel, on behalf of the students beneficiaries of the training and free healthcare products, thanked the organisers of the programme, for choosing the school among the beneficiaries of give a girl a pad.
Abel expressed excitement having one of the expensive pad from the group.
Our correspondent reported that products worth N1.5m were distributed to female students at Community Secondary School Abuloma.
