Pamela Bridgewater Project supports kayayei
The Pamela Bridgewater Project, which is concerned with the welfare of female head porters (kayayei), has organised a party for female head porters and their children to mark the just-ended Eid-ul-Fitr celebration at Mamobi, in Accra.
Food, drinks and sanitary pads were shared to the girls during the event.
Hajia Kwalebu Fuseinatu Sulemana, Event Organiser for Kunata Voluntary Organisation (the NGO which operates the Pamela Bridgewater Project), educated the female porters against teenage pregnancy, and how to prevent unwanted pregnancies.
She also schooled them in how to prevent and report sexual abuse from unscrupulous men who take advantage of their vulnerability.
Hajia Sulemana described President John Dramani Mahama’s free sanitary pad to female students in primary and secondary schools as a major step to end period poverty.
Free sanitary pads
According to her, the girl child is traumatised for failure to afford sanitary pads, stressing that Ghanaian girls are abused and tormented as they cannot afford the high cost of sanitary pads, as men take advantage of these innocent girls to sleep with them in order to give them money to purchase sanitary pads.
She announced that the organisation would commence the construction of the maiden Kayayei Day Care School Project at Aboaso in the Kwabre District in the Ashanti Region in September 2025 to provide educational haven for the children of kayayei and the disadvantaged in the community so as to end the cycle of poverty.
