Partnership
By Deji Abdulwahab
Abuja, March 16, 2018 (NAN) Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation (CCMAI), an NGO, says it is partnering with a company, Pad Up Creations, to implement “Operation Reduce Waste” (OPERA Waste) a programme in secondary schools in North-central.
The Senior Programme Officer of the initiative, Mr Richard Inyamkume, made the disclosure to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Thursday.
He said that the partnership also involved creating awareness on menstrual hygiene among school girls.
“CCMAI has concluded partnership with Pad up Creations, a social Enterprise Company with office in Niger State that produces Reusable Sanitary Pads for women.
“The partnership is to implement a programme called “Operation Reduce Waste” (OPERA Waste) in secondary schools, to increase awareness about menstrual hygiene and access to reusable menstrual Pads among school girls, targeting North Central Nigeria.
“Pad up Creations is donating free reusable menstrual pads to school girls to encourage safe and hygienic practices,” Inyamkume said.
He said the NGO had also concluded plans to commence the execution of its “Women Go Clean Naija” programme which aimed at strengthening communities in Nigeria to take up sanitation of communities.
According to him, the programme is designed to mobilise 10 million women and empower at least one million women to raise voices for sanitation and take up community sanitation programmes across the country.
Inyamkume said the programme which would begin in Bwari Area Council, Abuja in May would be replicated in communities within the FCT and states in the North Central in the first phase. (NAN)
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Edited By Adeboye Ajayi/Dada Ahmed