UNFPA donates 2300 hygiene kits to the three Northern Regions

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has donated 2300 hygiene kits to National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) to help restore a sense of dignity to women and girls in the three Northern Regions.

The donation is aimed at improving the lives of nursing mothers, pregnant women, women and girls who lost everything during the recent floods in the Northern, Upper East and West.

Each hygiene kits was made up of soap, tooth paste and brush, sanitary pads, body cream, bathing and laundry soap, bath towel, and a multi-purpose bucket. Out of the 2300 kits, 300 kits which includes face towel, cot sheet for wrapping baby, baby dress and diapers are specifically meant for nursing mothers and pregnant women.

Presenting the items, Dr Bernard Coquelin, UNFPA Country Representative, said the donation was an effort to address the basic hygiene needs and maintain the health and cleanliness of women and girls who tend to be greatly affected during disaster.

“We know that in an emergency situation due to disasters, people face difficulties to find basic food, to find a safe place to sleep, to find basic items as soap, toothbrush and paste and adequate protection during menstrual period for women and adolescents to enable them maintain their dignity during the crises period. This UNFPA kit called ‘dignity kit’ helps to fill the void”, he said.

He pledged UNFPA’s commitment to assist and protect women, men, youth, seniors made vulnerable by natural disaster, conflict and other emergency causes and situations.

Mr. Ebenezer Dosoo, the Deputy National Coordinator of Technical Operations at NADMO commended UNFPA for their continuous support to NADMO.

He assured the UNFPA of fair and equitable distribution of the items for the benefit of the larger majority of disaster victims within the three northern regions.