Joyce Bawah Mogtari, Special Aide to President John Dramani Mahama
Special Aide to President John Dramani Mahama, Joyce Bawah Mogtari has commended the government’s allocation of GH¢292.4 million for the distribution of free sanitary pads to female students in primary and secondary schools.
In a post shared on her X page on Wednesday, March 12, 2025, she described the initiative as a significant step toward eradicating period poverty and improving educational outcomes for girls in rural communities.
“Considering that my mother was a teacher in the Northern Region of Ghana in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, I know firsthand that girls actually dropped out of school because they didn’t have or couldn’t afford sanitary pads. I also remember how the New Patriotic Party tormented and destroyed the entire initiative when it was piloted in 2015 by the then Minister of Education (now Vice President) and her deputies at the time.
“It is, therefore, extremely exciting for me that, finally, the President John Dramani Mahama-led administration has made the biggest intervention ever by allocating GH¢292.4 million for the distribution of free sanitary pads to female students in primary and secondary schools. This will certainly help keep underprivileged girls in school,” she noted.
The Minister of Finance, Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson, announced this initiative during the presentation of the 2025 budget in Parliament on Tuesday, March 12, 2025.
Read the post below:
Considering that my Mother used to be a teacher in the Northern Region of Ghana way back in the 60s,70s and 80s, I know firsthand that girls actually dropped out of school because they didn’t have or couldn’t afford Sanitary pads, I also remember how the New Patriotic Party…
— Joyce Bawah Mogtari (@joyce_bawah) March 11, 2025
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