Partnership helps women, girls with reusable sanitary pads

WOMEN and girls living along the Kokoda track region finally have access to sanitary kits through the Papua New Guinea-Australia partnership programme.
The PNG-Australia partnership through the Kokoda initiative aims to help female students along the Kokoda track continue to participate in school and community activities by distributing reusable hygiene kits to women and girls in the region.
The Bisiatabu and Sogeri primary schools were the first to receive the kits last month marking World Children’s Day following the theme: “Investing in our children means investing in our future”.
Grade seven student Wilma Hau was happy she received face masks and the hygiene kit.
“Receiving the face masks and kits today shows we are important in our community,” she said.
More than 700 sanitary kits were produced by a team of 17 women in Kokoda, Northern, as part of the Seif Meri Mun project supported by the Kokoda initiative.
Each kit contained two reusable cloth pads, two shields to hold the pads, one face cloth, bath soap, a sealed bag to store the used pad for washing after use and a menstrual flow chart.