The National Youth Council of the Trade Union Congress (TUC) Chairperson Bernice Cudjoe has reiterated the call on the government to remove taxes on sanitary pads to make them affordable for vulnerable girls and women.
Bernice Cudjoe made the call during a sanitary pad donation exercise to some five basic schools in the Volta Region on Wednesday,16, October 2024.
She bemoaned the high cost of sanitary pads, saying it makes it difficult for parents to provide them for their adolescent daughters, which in turn affects their world's academic achievements. "We realized that sanitary pads have become a bit expensive and with most students in these regions, whenever it's that time of the month they find it difficult to be in school because they cannot afford the pads so they tend to stay away from school and everything so we have decided as an initiative to share sanitary pads to our sisters or the girl child in these five schools in the Volta Region and we hope that going forward we could do same in the other regions," she said.
Bernice further explains that the donation exercise was done to alleviate the burden some parents bear in providing the pads for their daughters in commemoration of International Youth Day, which was observed in August this year.