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Fozao Vaniela                     View of facilitators  As part of activities to mark the 2023 edition of World Menstrual Hygiene Day which was observed with the theme: Making Menstruation a normal fact of life by 2030, TeenAlive, a non governmental organization organized a workshop to school youths on Menstrual hygiene. As pointed out by the Gender Based Violence (GBV) coordinator and TeenAlive focal person in Bamenda, Ngonga Linda, access to sanitary pads, "many young girls both in developed and developing countries don't really have access to sanitary products and even when it is available, it is too expensive,"said Ngonga Linda                   Madam Ngonga Linda  TeenAlive organization distributed sanitary pads to young girls as a way of commemorating the day.                 Distribution of sanitary towels  The Parish Pastor...

Fozao Vaniela                Midwives at Bamenda Regional Hospital  Joan Agwafu Azongwa,Midwife at the female Gynecological Unit of the Regional Hospital in Bamenda has invited Midwives to uphold the values of the profession. She made the call Friday May 5,2023 during activities to celebrate International Midwives Day with the theme: Together Again, From Evidence To Reality. "Prospective midwives should have an understanding and caring attitude, an ability to get on well with people from a wide range of backgrounds and good observers. They should learn to teach and uphold the midwifery profession to standards and should not be money minded,"said madam Joan. She also pointed out that  the day is so important because it reminds the world about the female body and it's ability to bring forth children, "The day seeks to remind us that the female body is perfectly capable of giving birth and carrying a child to term without some of the methods employed by obstetrics and o...