School boys advocate for free sanitary pads

Rivaldo KavangaThe boys club from Khomastura High School on Friday, 5 March launched the “We Care” project that aims to have sanitary pads readily available at school for girls. The event was attended by the Khomastura learners, the management of Khomastura high school, representatives from the Ella Du Plessis Boys Club, Sidney Boois the chief executive officer of the School Of Destiny Associates (SODA), invited guests.The project aims to build character on values in boys such as accountability and self-worth. “We Care” is a demonstration of social solidarity, an intervention which attempts to make the boy child understand the circumstances of the girl child sitting next to him in class. “The plight of the Namibian girl child, period poverty must be addressed, and again today the constitutional right to education and dignity of a daughter in our society has been responded to,” Boois said.Moses Niikondo, the chairman of the Boys Club from Ella Du Plessis Secondary School, said society strongly discriminates periods and treats it like a taboo. “The first time I was assigned to donate pads I was unsure of how I will manage to buy it, not because of any financial difficulty but because of how the people in the shop would look at me,” said Niikondo.He further said that the cashier in the shop asked him what he was doing with pads, as it was the only thing he had in his basket.“Responsibility is a choice and our choice today is to voice our support to the motion tabled by the deputy minister of ICT, Emma Theofilius, who is seeking for the amendment of tax laws that will allow for imposing tax exemptions on all menstrual and hygiene products. We will not stop advocating till we see the “not for sale” quote on sanitary pads,” said Niikondo.“On behalf of all the boys at Khomastura, as chairperson of the boys club, we pledge our full commitment to the “We Care” project. The girls can count on us to ensure that the lack of sanitary pads at this school will be a problem of the past,” said Waldo Esau the chairman of the Boys Club.The boys club said they are hopeful that their social advocacy programme would lead to structural advocacy which would result in policy change to advance the education dream of the girl child.

School boys advocate for free sanitary pads

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