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22 January 2021 at 18:01 |
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Her Excellency, Madam Fatima Bio has on Wednesday 20th January 2021 commenced the distribution of free sanitary pads to school girls within Freetown as part of a nationwide distribution process that will target 60,000 beneficiaries.
The distribution exercise started with three schools in the west end of Freetown and was witnessed by senior government officials including the Sierra Leone Ambassador to China H.E Alex Ndomahina and members of both the Julius Maada Bio Women’s Wing and Associates and the Fatima and Maada Bio foundation.
In her statement at the distribution event in all the three schools of Lady Patricia Kabba Secondary School, Services Secondary School and Vine Memorial Secondary School, Madam Fatima told the cheerful young girls that menstruation was not a crime and therefore, they should not be ashamed of it.