Inspire Today, an NGO known for championing the course of girls in deprived communities by providing them with sanitary pads, other personal hygiene items, and educational materials, has marked this year's International Day of the Girl Child with a little of six thousand girls in Yilo Krobo.

The NGO teamed up with four other institutions, Wilmar Africa, CouldYou, Step Publishers, and Elpis Children’s Foundation to extend support to these vulnerable girls in the Yilo Krobo Municipality of the Eastern Region of Ghana.

The Yilo Krobo community over the past years continues to record high cases of teenage pregnancies, and child marriages largely due to lack of education and poverty.

There are also recorded cases of parental neglect, poor supervision, sexual harassment, and late enrolment of girls in school just to mention a few.

The partnership between Inspire Today and the rest of the organizations helped the girls to receive education on girls' rights and the potential to become influential when you take your lessons seriously.

The girls from 15 different clusters of schools were given sanitary pads, bathing soap and washing detergent, shaving sticks, deodorants, and reading materials.

CouldYou, an international non-governmental organization dedicated to curating, proving, and scaling sustainable solutions to period poverty and malaria, donated 500 menstrual cups to girls in Yilo Krobo Senior High School.

This is aimed at finding a sustainable menstrual hygiene practice, one that does not require investing in monthly pads. The CouldYou menstrual cup is a menstrual absorbent that can be used for 5-10 years and therefore produces significantly less waste than other MHH materials.

While cups require water for boiling, they need far less than reusable pads or cloths. The cup allows its user to safely handle menstruation without reoccurring costs for many years.

Country Manager of CouldYou, Kofi Kyeremateng Nyanteng explained that the partnership with Inspire Today allows his team to support girls and marginalized women to win the fight against period poverty, which is a threat to their health and career development.

The Elpis Children's Foundation's mission is to encourage and support Black families in pursuing private adoption in the United States and financially support nonprofit organizations that serve orphaned, needy, and abandoned children in the Republic of Ghana.

The international NGO funded 250 menstrual cups from CouldYou to support girls in Yilo Krobo Senior High School to mark International Day of the Girl Child 2024.

Marketing Manager of Wilmar Africa Ewuraba Adusei underscored the importance of pushing the girl child to achieve excellence which is why it gave the girls 3 months' supply of soap items to ensure that the girls practice clean and hygienic menstruation so they can go to school and remain in school.

Executive Director for Inspire Today, Etornam Sey, called on the government, the Ghana Education Service (GES), corporate institutions, and even churches to join forces to make issues of menstrual hygiene among girl children a priority.

She stressed that challenges arising out of menstruation should not be the reason why girls cannot pursue their dreams.

She suggested that concerted efforts must be made by all stakeholders to end menstrual poverty among school children.