Corps member donates sanitary pads to school girls in Katsina

A Corps member serving in Katsina State, Abdullah Tekiyati-Irewole, has donated sanitary pads to 300 female students of Government Girls College Katsina.

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The corps member, serving with Emirate Science Secondary School, gave the donation in Katsina, on Sunday as part of her personal National Youths Service (NYSC) Community Development Service (CDS).

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that she also carried out a sensitization program to educate the young secondary school girls in the state on menstrual hygiene.

Speaking at the event, Tekiyati-Irewole disclosed that she observed that most young girls start seeing their monthly period at that secondary school age

According to her,  from her experience with the students she teaches, and when it happens to them, most of them stop coming to school

She said it took her some time to discover that it was what was making the students from being regular to school until when she had to follow up with one of them who was doing very well in class who suddenly stopped coming to school.

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Tekiyati-Irewole said,” The girl was one of the best students in my class, and that there was an assignment she gave to the class.

”She was to stand up and teach her classmates the following day, when surprisingly I did not see her in school.

“So, the following day after school, I went to their house, had a chat with her, and she opened up that she was in her menstrual period and that she was shy to come to the school.”

Tekiyati-Irewole said that since then, she understood that something was wrong somewhere and that was lack of awareness.

”So, i decided to embark on the sensitization programme for the young girls in schools’,’ the corps member said.

Also Speaking, the NYSC Coordinator in the state, Alhaji Ibrahim Sa’idu, called on  parents and guardians, especially mothers, to always keep their eyes and guide the female children properly at their adolescent age.

The coordinator, who was represented by the Head of the CDS, Alhaji Sumaila Suleiman, thanked the corps member and urged others to emulate her.

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