As the World marks international menstrual hygiene day,Safe Menstruation Movement (SAMMO) a non-governmental and non-profitable Organization based in the Upper East Region of Ghana whose members comprise of young voluntary men and women whose aim is to support young girls with sanitary products to ensure safe and hygienic menstruation period, and to also provide education to school going girls on menstrual hygiene among other things has joined the whole world to commemorate the day.
Meanwhile, as part of mandate and agenda, SAMMO wants to find out from the government of the republic of Ghana, if it is a crime to be born a woman? Or Women intentionally created a menstruation period for themselves? We at SAMMO believe menstruation is a natural phenomenon and it is not for nothing God made women to experience it every month in their life.
“Why would the government place a 20% Luxury Tax on sanitary products making our vulnerable girls find it difficult to buy? These are the questions we at SAMMO on this day join women and all well-meaning Ghanaians across the nation to seek answers from our authorities, whom we believe have all the power to scrap this unacceptable tax in order for women to also have hygienic menstruation periods without stress”.
SAFE MENSTRUATION MOVEMENT (SAMMO)
PRESS RELEASE IN
COMMEMORATION OF 2023 INTERNATIONAL MENSTRUAL HYGIENE DAY.
Safe Menstruation Movement (SAMMO) is a non-governmental and non-profitable Organization based in the Upper East Region of Ghana whose members comprise of young voluntary men and women whose aim is to support young girls with sanitary products to ensure safe and hygienic menstruation period, and to also provide education to school going girls on menstrual hygiene among other things.
On this special day of international menstrual hygiene day, SAMMO joins the whole world to commemorate the day with sadness following the difficulties women and young girls go through just to have a pack of sanitary pad to ensure safe and hygienic condition during menstruation due to the high cost involved.
International Menstrual Hygiene Day falls on 28th May every year, which is a global advocacy platform used to promote good menstrual hygiene management (MHM) practices and raise awareness of the challenges women and girls face during menstruation.
Menstrual hygiene day is an occasion for publicizing information in the media; including social media, Public Information Campaign which can help engage decision makers in policy dialogue. The day also provides an opportunity to actively advocate for integration of menstrual hygiene management (MHM) into global, national and local policies and programs.
In light of this, SAMMO wants to find out from the government of the republic of Ghana, if it is a crime to be born a woman? Or Women intentionally created a menstruation period for themselves? We at SAMMO believe menstruation is a natural phenomena and it is not for nothing God made women to experience it every month in their life.
Why would the government place a 20% Luxury Tax on sanitary products making our vulnerable girls find it difficult to buy? These are the questions we at SAMMO on this day join women and all well-meaning Ghanaians across the nation to seek answers from our authorities, whom we believe have all the power to scrap this unacceptable tax in order for women to also have hygienic menstruation periods without stress.
As we celebrate this year’s International Menstrual Hygiene Day on the theme “making menstruation a normal fact of life by 2030” SAMMO is calling on government to as a matter of urgency take action of the follow;
- Scrap the 20% Luxury Tax on sanitary products and create an enabling environment for companies to manufacture sanitary pads locally.
2.The government through Ghana Education Service (GES) should also provide facilities which are gender friendly and changing rooms in our schools for girls to use during their menstruation period.
- We wish to also call on all parents to show much interest in their adolescent girl’s menstrual health and support them with menstrual hygiene education and sanitary pads.
By this, women and girls can feel empowered to manage their periods safely, with confidence and without embarrassment. We should live in a world where no woman or girl is limited to something as natural as menstruation.
To create a world where menstruation is just a normal fact of life, we need more action and investment in menstrual health and hygiene (MHM) education so that by 2030 every woman and girl would have basic knowledge about menstruation and should be able to afford sanitary pads.
We wish to express our profound gratitude to our partners and sponsors Blessings Basket Ghana and The Britney Tachie Foundation for believing and supporting our course all this while together change is possible.
SAMMO : Join the Movement,It is time for action! Thank You.
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Contact Person’s;
Nsobuno Paul
President of SAMMO
0208916500/0543302111
James Awara
SAMMO Secretary
0204541448/0543304276
David Azure
SAMMO Deputy Secretary
0247266461/0505173471
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