Last year President Museveni promised that girls in UPE-funded schools will start receiving free sanitary pads.
Mayuge.
Government
should provide free sanitary pads to all school-going girls in the
country in order to reduce the rate of school drop-outs. This call was
made by girl pupils from Mayuge District.
Speaking at the Advocacy
for Better Health public dialogues held in different sub-counties of
Mayuge last week, the girls argued that with the availability of
sanitary pads in schools, missing classes as a result of a menstrual
cycle will be something of the past.
“Most of our parents cannot
afford those pads, so staying away from school becomes the easier option
for menstruating girls,” Rose Namuluta, a Primary Six pupil at Bwiwula
Primary School in Imanyiro Sub-county, said on behalf of fellow girls.
She added: “If government takes up the responsibility of providing
sanitary pads free of charge, it would have demonstrated to us that it
cares deeply about girls’ education.”
Dr Charles Nabangi, who
represented the district health officer, Mr Edward Naguyo, said the
issues raised by the girls will be presented to the concerned
authorities for discussion.
Ms Suzan Namuganza, a teacher at one
of the primary schools in the district, urged the district authorities
to take the girls’ concerns urgently as they impact on the education of
the girl-child.
President’s promise
During
presidential campaigns in November last year, President Museveni
promised that beginning the next financial year, girls in a UPE-funded
school were going to be given free sanitary pads.
SOURCE: MONITOR
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