Director of Communications for the Melcom Group of Companies, Godwin Avenorgbo, has urged corporate organizations to join hands to support menstrual hygiene among girls.

He spoke when Melcom Care Foundation presented one hundred and sixty-four cartons of sanitary pads and eighty-five cartons of drinks to the 'Touching the Lives of Girls Foundation International (TLGF)’ to reach out to the less privileged in Accra.

The gesture was in commemoration of the Menstrual Hygiene Day which is an annual awareness day celebrated on May 28, to highlight the importance of good menstrual hygiene management at a global level.

Mr. Avenorgbo gave an extensive explanation of how important the initiative is to the organisation.

According to him, "it is important for us because we need to invest in the people who help grow our wealth. Melcom is a brand that is visible, well distributed in all sixteen regions of Ghana and still expanding and extending services to support people who spend their money at Melcom shops, hence, our CSR initiatives. What is in it for us is aiding, and supporting people in need."

He further explained how this affects the girl child. He said, "many of these girls skip school when it is time for their menstrual circle experiences and with this support, both boys and girls can go to school the same number of days so they can write the same exam".

On her part, the Category Manager for Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited, Ruthy Agbozo, told JoyNews that as part of their customer appreciation, the company decided to support the project because "females are dear to our hearts."

"We have gender diversity as part of the core things that we do as a business," she added.

The Chief Executive Officer of Touching the Lives of Girls Foundation International, Nana Ama Adutwumwaa elaborated on the need for menstrual education. She said this would help the girl child to know about menstrual hygiene.

She mentioned that, "it is important because it is a basic need since every girl child would have to go through menstruation at a point in time, so it is important to educate the girl child before the menarche stage, so she will be able to do the right thing to avoid infections which will go untreated."

Touching the Lives of Girls Foundation International, has however assured of their endless support for the girl child.