As part of efforts aimed at improving quality of life of the girl-child, the Deborah’s Impact Projects Africa (DIPA) recently implemented Pad-A-Girl Drive by empowering over one thousand adolescent girls through the donation of free sanitary pads and menstrual hygiene education in Lagos.
The Pad-A-Girl event held at Gbara Community Senior High School, Jakande, Eti-Osa and Onike Junior High School, Iwaya, Yaba, in Lagos State, provided menstrual hygiene products, education and confidence-building sessions to young girls who are often forced to miss school due to lack of access to sanitary pads.
With inflation pushing essential hygiene products b
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