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NGO set to empower school girls with free sanitary pads/ hygiene products to celebrate Menstrual Hygiene Day 2018 HEAL FOR AFRICA INITIATIVE​ will officially launch the PATH project to commemorate the Menstrual Hygiene Day (MHD2018) on the ​28th of May 2018​ at Al Ansar Secondary School, New Layout, Lokoja, Kogi State. The MHD is a day set aside globally to educate young girls and ladies in particular and the general public about Menstrual Hygiene as well as break the stigma and clarify myths and misconceptions around Menstruation. ​The event will also feature a health talk on Menstrual Hygiene, a practical session on how to make Reusable Sanitary Pads with locally available materials and distribution of free sanitary pads/ personal hygiene products to participants. PATH became a child of necessity for HEAL FOR AFRICA INITIATIVE because we have identified that in this part of the world, menstruation is perceived as a filthy, shameful or a negative process that shoul...

                                                                                 by OLASUPO Abideen Opeyemi May 15, 2018 D ear Mr. President It is with a heavy heart that I sit down to write Your Eminence. As a conscious, patriotic and progressive youth, I could not help but register my dissatisfaction with my country’s plight alongside a volley of plea to your administration to rescue this dire situation. Excuse the curtness of my manners. The intensity of my pain has almost robbed me entirely of formality. My passionate plea is not for a personal gain but for a revision of government’s position on issues of health, poverty and education, the individual components forming the fulcrum around which our collective development and glory as a nation revolve. Sir, I read ...