The team of Ahsa Life Organization held a health education program and also donated sanitary pads to female students of the Namanwora senior high school located in the Agona west district of the central region of Ghana.
A health practitioner of the Ghana health service, Miss. Sophia Mensah educated the girls on how to live a healthy life despite any form of complications related to their menstruation periods and also took them through the various ways of them keeping their selves clean before, during and after menstruation. During her speech, Miss. Sophia also tackled other various areas such as avoidance of early sex and the negative impacts associated with it like becoming school dropouts as a result of teenage pregnancy.
After the health talk with the students, the team donated seven hundred and twenty sanitary pads to the girls. The headmaster of the school together with the girl’s school prefects expressed their gratitude and assured the Ahsa team of ensuring that the girls make good use of their time in school. The students promised to always give out their best to become useful in their societies.
Ahsa Life believes that girl child education and women empowerment as a whole have positive impacts in the lives of females and will enable them be useful in the societies in which they are and the country as a whole. Children today are the future leaders of the country therefore; the team has planned to work very hard to reach not less than 80% of the schools in Ghana in educating them on the need not to take education for granted.
