{"id":323819,"date":"2017-05-30T18:00:20","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T18:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=323819"},"modified":"2017-05-30T18:00:20","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T18:00:20","slug":"mafi-kumasi-shs-marks-world-menstrual-hygiene-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/05\/mafi-kumasi-shs-marks-world-menstrual-hygiene-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Mafi-Kumasi SHS marks World Menstrual Hygiene day"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Rebecca Agroh Memorial Foundation (RAM Foundation), a Non-Governmental Organization committed to the development of women through advocacy and skills training, has marked this year\u2019s menstrual hygiene day in Mafi-Kumasi SHS, with a call to break the stigma associated with menstruation among young girls. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n As a result of inadequate education on menstruation, there have always been feelings of anxiety and fear among adolescent girls in schools during their menstrual periods. <\/span><\/p>\n Most of them who do not have the courage and knowledge to handle such moments absent themselves from school until their menstruation ends. Girls in schools without exclusive sanitary facilities for them had to go home to change themselves and they mostly never\u00a0return.<\/span><\/p>\n