Over 600 girls in the Essumeja traditional area in the Amansie East Municipality of Ashanti are being supported with free sanitary pads and reproductive health education. The initiative of the wife of the paramount chief of Essumeja Asantemanso seeks to address absenteeism among adolescent girls who skip classes due to menstruation. Education authorities are worried many adolescent girls shy away from classes due to poor management of menstruation.