Community leader appeals for more sanitary pads for young women

Community leader appeals for more sanitary pads for young women

The deputy community leader of Ekot Etonko in Calabar South LGA of Cross River State, Mr. Effiok Okon, has appealed to the authorities to regularly intervene with free donations of sanitary pads for their young women, especially girl students. He spoke when a non-governmental organisation, PadBank, distributed free sanitary pads to women and schoolgirls in Ekot Etonko community as part of efforts to promote menstrual hygiene and end period pover…

PadBank Mobile Outreach Empowers More Women, Girls In Cross River

A humanitarian initiative committed to ending period poverty and promoting menstrual hygiene in Cross River, PadBank, has taken its monthly mobile outreach to Ekot Etonko community in Calabar South Local Government Area of state. The outreach featured the distribution of sanitary pads and education of women and schoolgirls on proper menstrual health management. Speaking at the outreach on Thursday, the Coordinator of PadBank, Archibong Bassey, r…