The Ghana National Association of the Deaf (GNAD) the national association advocating for the rights of Deaf people have for the second time, presented five (25) boxes of Yazz sanitary pads and three (3) boxes of antiseptics (Dettol) to the management of Bechem School for the Deaf in the Ahafo Region on Monday 20th February 2023.

The donation forms part of efforts of the association to meet the needs of adolescent girls of the school to improve their menstrual hygiene to enable them to participate in learning in school. 

The donation forms part of a project implemented by the Ghana National Association of the Deaf (GNAD) with financial support from AmplifyChange. 

The project which is a 24-month project seeks to improve access of deaf people to comprehensive Sexual Reproductive Health and to improve on menstrual hygiene of adolescent girls for some selected basic and Junior high schools across the country.

Mr Eric Sapey Jnr and the team GNAD Project Lead told the Ghanaian Times that the project sought to train about 1,000 deaf people including adolescent girls to know about their Sexual, Reproductive Health including menstrual hygiene management. 

It is also to empower them to deal with the challenges associated with menstruation which impacts negatively their education.

Mr. Eric Sapey Jnr said more than 200 students’ boys and girls of Bechem School for the Deaf had been trained on menstrual hygiene with similar training being held in Savelugu School for the Deaf as well as Hohoe School for the Deaf in the Northern and Volta Regions respectively.

The Vice Principal of Bechem School for the Deaf, Mr.  Armstrong Adu-Boakye who received the items on behalf of the students commended GNAD for the support for the school and assured them that the items would be given to beneficiary students.

He expressed his gratitude to GNAD for including the school in the project and for the various support and encouragement. He stated that the support from GNAD and Amplify Change has been impactful. He appealed to other stakeholders to support the school so that the distribution of sanitary pads to the girls will continue to assist needy girls to participate in learning.  

He appealed to other benevolent organizations to emulate the shining example of the Ghana National Association of the Deaf (GNAD).