Annual Performance Report highlights achievements
The work to help teenage girls miss fewer school lessons because of their menstrual periods has already been expanded to five schools in the Dominase area – with two more due to join in September 2026.
Many girls cannot access or afford expensive products and this can lead to them missing one week in every four of their teenage school career.
Missing a quarter of their time at school can have a major impact on their educational attainment, confidence and self-esteem and so Buriton’s charity link is trying to help.
The Village-to-Village Group has been working with ‘Girls Club Ghana’ (a small Ghanaian organisation) and a small team of local nurses who visit each of the schools to help girls learn about menstrual hygiene and encourage the use of relatively inexpensive, locally-made, sustainable period products.
Washable and re-usable sanitary pads are now been made by local professional seamstresses near to each school, funded by money from Buriton. As well as helping scores of teenage girls, this initiative brings extra income into the local economy and provides skills that are likely to be useful for years to come.
All the feedback from the project continues to be very positive and constructive.
Most recently the annual Performance Review report from the main clinic in the area has highlighted a number of achievements from the project: not only the provision of free sanitary pads to school-going children, but also the establishment of valuable ‘adolescent clubs’ at each school and a reduction in teenage pregnancies.
If the initiative continues to be successful – and if enough money can continue to be raised in Buriton – it’s hoped that it can be extended to all the Junior High Schools in the area over the next few years – helping hundreds of girls every year.
