Attah Sisters Helping Hands (ASHH) Foundation is soliciting for donations of Menstrual Hygiene Products for Women and Girls that were displaced and currently taking refuge in some camps as a result of the recent devastating flood that occurred in Maiduguri, the Borno State Capital.
The need for sanitary pads and other menstrual hygiene products to be distributed to women and girls in such camps has become necessary considering the situation they found themselves in due to flood that displaced them.
The Executive Director of ASHH Foundation Comfort Ene Attah, while interacting with newsmen in Bauchi said that she was triggered to start the menstrual hygiene products campaign because of the ordeal women and girls faced in accessing sanitary pads during their menstrual periods in the camps.
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"A woman that had a miscarriage in one of the flood victims camps shared her touching story with me on how her bleeding was stopped after her miscarriage. The woman informed me that it took the intervention of some women within the camp, using their headtiers as pads to control the bleeding.
"What this means is the use of unhygienic materials as sanitary pads which could cause infection for the user. This is just one woman alone. You can imagine the number of women and girls is such camps that can't afford sanitary pads.
"ASHH Foundation has sent some cartons of sanitary pads,, but it is grossly inadequate. That is why we are soliciting for assistance from governments , corporate bodies and well meaning individuals to procure such menstrual hygiene products for onward distribution to the women and girls in such camp", says Attah.
The ED said that ASHH Foundation is willing to assist in sending such products across stressing that, "for more information on how to send the products to the women and girls in the camps, potential donors get reach ASHH Foundation on +2348067939429, +2349165700713 +2347067677722 . Other information for the campaign drive can be found in our fliers too".
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