By Richard Akintade, Osogbo
Wife of the Osun State Governor, Mrs Kafayat Oyetola, has called on all school authorities in the state to key into various advocacy campaigns aimed at achieving good healthy living through ensuring that toilet facilities in various schools are kept in clean and hygienic conditions.
Mrs Oyetola stated this during a programme marking the year 2021 menstural Hygiene Day with the theme: “Stepping up Action for Menstrual Hygiene and Health” held at Apara Memorial High School in Atakumosa West local government area of the state.
Osun First Lady stated that the significance of the special day was part of the international efforts at tackling the health and social challenges that tended to affect the well-being of girls and women in the society.
She pointed out that girls often faced some challenges in proper and hygienic management of the monthly flow, adding that the challenges could range from lack of proper information at the outset of menstruation, lack of access to proper materials such as reusable pads and cloths to soak up the flow and privacy of changing places when the girls are school or Public places.
The wife of the Governor who also doubles as the Wash Ambassador in the state stressed further that unhygienic handling of menstural flow in girls could trigger diseases which could negatively impacts school attendance band performance.
The wife of the Governor now disclosed that her NGO and Osun Government had developed a comprehensive campaign on the need to improve access to water, Sanitation and hygiene in the state of Osun in which one of the expected fruits of the campaign was availability of decent toilets in every home, Community, school, market and public place in the state.
She further urged school authorities to give more awareness to issues of water Sanitation and hygiene by setting up wash clubs to ensure the school environment to be more friendly for academic activities.
She also implored mothers to refrain from cutting genital parts of girls child because victims of the act a
tended to experience longer and more painful menstruation than those not circumcised.
Mrs Oyetola appealed to students of the state to see education as the only key that could guarantee better life in the modern age by taking their learning as priority while still young.
Coordinating Director Ministry of Education, Mrs Olaniyan Christiana, urged the students of the school not to partake in any forms of hooliganism but abide by the school rules and/or regulations at all time for them to become a great leader in future.
Earlier in his address of welcome, the principal of the school, Mr Osunkile Gabriel appreciated the wife of the Governor for the grace given to the school to benefit from the various health programme of her NGO and Osun Government developmental programmes under the leadership of Governor Adegboyega Oyetola, he prayed that God Almighty would give Governor Oyetola and his cabinet members more wisdom and knowledge to pilot the affairs of the State to a greater heights.
Highlight of the programme was presentation of the sanitary pads to female students of Apara Memorial High school by the wife of the Governor.
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