African Women Traders assist four Dansoman schools

AFRICAN Women Traders Organisation (AWTA), a non profit organisation has donated 50 boxes of sanitary pads worth GH¢1,200 to four schools in Dansoman.
They are the New Standard Primary and Junior High School, St Paul Academy, Gbegbeyise Primary and Junior High School and the Mpoasei Methodist School.
Presenting the items, the Chairman of AWTA, Mrs Comfort Quarshie said that the vision of the organisation was to help the under privileged women in the society.
She said the organisation took such women through vocational skills training, wealth creation and HIV Aids awareness .
She said the organisation also encouraged women to cultivate the culture of savings and undertake group activities in which they could gain access to collateral-free loans.
Mrs Quarshie said that the donation was to encourage girls in the schools to take personal hygiene more seriously.
She said that due to the present economic hardships some parents could not afford sanitary pads for their daughters therefore exposing them to the the use of unconventional materials.
She said such under- privileged girls were always in a dilemma as to what to do during such periods adding that she was confident that the items would be of immense benefit to the girls.