The main purpose of the One Girl One Box Project is to help provide teenage girls with sanitary pads in order to reduce absenteeism in schools
Menstruation is an important milestone for adolescent girls but it could lead to several health problems if poorly managed. A UNESCO report estimated that one in ten girls in Sub-Saharan Africa misses school during their menstrual cycle and in Ghana a study conducted by Sustainable Development Focus (SUDEF) a non-governmental organisation in 2016 revealed that 95 percent of girls, especially in the rural area in the country failed to attend school during their menstrual period because many of the girls are unable to take good care of themselves due to lack of modern sanitary pads and sanitary facilities. It is not uncommon to see many of these girls resort to using old and tattered rags during their menstruation period, a situation which could lead to serious health complications for the young girls.
The main purpose of the One Girl One Box Project is to help provide teenage girls with sanitary pads in order to reduce absenteeism in schools. Having access to pad means many of these young girls will feel confident to go and stay in schools and keeping the female child in school is a sure way of providing and shaping a brighter future for her and her family as her education and subsequent career advancement would become the springboard with which the entire family breaks out of poverty.
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