By Alfred Kollie, alfredkolliejr92@gmail.com
A local nongovernmental Organization He For She Crusaders Liberia with support from FORUMCIV has launched a project to ensure gender equality through menstrual hygiene management in the central Bong County.
Serving as Keynote speaker, He For She Crusaders Liberia Founder and National Coordinator, Mr. Tamba Forkpah Jedidiah Johnson noted that Liberians can together break the stigma and the basics.
Speaking on the theme Together, we can break the stigma and biases, Johnson stressed the need for women and girls to have access to menstrual hygiene management education across Liberia.
According to him, if the unwanted teenage pregnancy must be eradicated and increased girls’ enrollment in school, menstrual hygiene management education must be seriously look at by both government and parents.
Mr. Johnson however urged girls to avoid being fooled by boys to have them being impregnated and abounded, thereby reducing their chances to pursuit education.
This can only be possible if girls understand their menstrual period, he noted.
“Girls and parents you need to know menstrual period and avoid teenage pregnancy it is on this basic that we are launching this program so that you can have enough understanding on menstrual period through this program, Menstrual Hygiene Management education,’’ the He for She Crusaders Coordinator said.
Mr. Johnson further called on boys to assist in educating other boys to promote girls’ education through promoting menstrual hygiene on campus and communities across Liberia.
He For She Crusaders Liberia Founder and National Coordinator however, wants National Government to consider incorporating menstrual hygiene education and create menstrual facilities at public places, schools and market areas.
Mr. Johnson is meanwhile appealing to the press to keep flagging messages on menstrual hygiene, if Liberia is to achieve the SDGS by 2030.
Asa Chon, Program Manager of FORUMCIV thanked He For She Crusaders Liberia thanked the local organization for publicly launching such great initiative.
Mr. Chon called on girls and women to take the project as theirs and take very teaching seriously in order to create more awareness.
According to him, menstrual hygiene is essential to end poverty and foster girls’ education thereby ending violence against women and girls in Liberia.