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• odei 11 years ago

  foolish article. Just build a factory to manufacture the pads, that's what we are saying.

  foolish article. Just build a factory to manufacture the pads, that's what we are saying.

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• Rosy 11 years ago

  Acquire a loan & instead of using the funds to invest in something meaningful, you want to use the same money to buy cheap pads from china & distribute it to school girls for free.

  Acquire a loan & instead of using the funds to invest in something meaningful, you want to use the same money to buy cheap pads from china & distribute it to school girls for free.

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• KOLA,LONDON PROPER 11 years ago

  It is food for thought for those stuck in the BUSH. When are those stuck in the Bush going to come to the south to learn some eye-opening before they travel abroad to do their toilet cleaning?
  
  If those Bush rats claim they ...
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  It is food for thought for those stuck in the BUSH. When are those stuck in the Bush going to come to the south to learn some eye-opening before they travel abroad to do their toilet cleaning?
  
  If those Bush rats claim they have Cocoa, why do they leave their cocoa behind and travel abroad only to clean toilets?
  
  Stick to your cocoa if you have any.

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• KB, SWEDEN 11 years ago

  What do you illiterate do in London?

  What do you illiterate do in London?

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• NAKED 11 years ago

  Ask him again my brother, this guy weren't born in nine month so he doesn't know how to talk. Goofy.

  Ask him again my brother, this guy weren't born in nine month so he doesn't know how to talk. Goofy.

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• Atugabiig 11 years ago

  NONSENSE, MISPLACED PRIORITY. THE EDUCATIONAL SECTOR NEEDS BETTER HELP THAN PADS.
  KIDS ARE SCHOOLING UNDER TREES.
  KIDS ARE USING STONES AS CHAIRS AND WOODEN PLANKS AS TABLES.
  KIDS LAY ON THEIR STOMACHS IN DUSTY DILAPIDATED ...
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  NONSENSE, MISPLACED PRIORITY. THE EDUCATIONAL SECTOR NEEDS BETTER HELP THAN PADS.
  KIDS ARE SCHOOLING UNDER TREES.
  KIDS ARE USING STONES AS CHAIRS AND WOODEN PLANKS AS TABLES.
  KIDS LAY ON THEIR STOMACHS IN DUSTY DILAPIDATED AND RAMSHACKLE CLASSROOMS AND NOTHING IS DONE ABOUT THAT.
  AND YET DOCTOR, YOU THINK OUR EDUCATIONAL PRIORITY IS SANITARY PADS FOR SCHOOL GIRLS, WHAT THE ........?
  ANOTHER CREATE AND LOOT AVENUE.
  I WENT TO SCHOOL IN THE '60S WHEN MUM'S OLD CLOTH WAS USED AS TAMPONS (AMOAASE). EVEN THEN, THE AGYEIWAAS, YAA POMAAS, ASANTEWAAS, BOADIWAAS, ETC CAME TO SCHOOL EVERY MORNING.
  NOW, THE LACK OF SANITARY PADS HAS BE COME THE REASON WHY THE GIRL CHIL DOES NOT GO TO SCHOOL, EBEI, NUK3DJOR?
  PLEASE MAHAMA, GIVE US A BREAK.
  GO AHEAD AND LOOT, AFTER ALL, AT THE END OF THE DAY, YOU WON'T LISTEN TO ANYONE.
  WHY DON'T WE RATHER INVEST IN HEALTH AND SEX EDUCATION?
  WHO BUYS SANITARY PADS FOR OTHER PEOPLE'S KIDS?
  AS3M B3BA DABI.

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• rosy 11 years ago

  fool

  fool

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• Osofo 11 years ago

  Borrowing money to provide free sanitary pads is a bad idea. Some of these schools don't have toilet facilities. Zakaria, please tell us what is more important. Government cannot promise free shoes, tampons, condoms, clothes, ...
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  Borrowing money to provide free sanitary pads is a bad idea. Some of these schools don't have toilet facilities. Zakaria, please tell us what is more important. Government cannot promise free shoes, tampons, condoms, clothes, education, etc. just because they can.

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• Nana Yaw 11 years ago

  The idea to keep girls in school is brilliant yet this approach is certainly not the way to go. Poverty reduction and empowering parents to become responsible cannot be grossed over. The government was emphatic that these pad ...
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  The idea to keep girls in school is brilliant yet this approach is certainly not the way to go. Poverty reduction and empowering parents to become responsible cannot be grossed over. The government was emphatic that these pads are meant for SHS girls, what happens to those at the JHS since the average girl in Ghana now starts menstruating at least on or before JHS 1. This government we know cannot be trusted, we will rather prefer the world bank to deal with NGOs on this issue than NDC. The money will by all means pass through wrong hands

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• The Mask 11 years ago

  There is a school with adequate free sanitary pads for ladies but no textbooks and a few overstretched teachers.
  
  Annual Cost: Number of female students nationwide in JSS and SSS X 12 X 5 X Cost of single pad.
  
  What are t ...
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  There is a school with adequate free sanitary pads for ladies but no textbooks and a few overstretched teachers.
  
  Annual Cost: Number of female students nationwide in JSS and SSS X 12 X 5 X Cost of single pad.
  
  What are the alternatives??
  
  MPs must consult their constituents.

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• David 11 years ago

  How many times do you want to recycle this trash here?

  How many times do you want to recycle this trash here?

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• Kwame 11 years ago

  I could remember that in 1965 the opposition in Ghana propagated the falsehood that Kwame Nkrumah's socialism means that there will be hostel for men to visit women who will not work but are to be visited by men to have child ...
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  I could remember that in 1965 the opposition in Ghana propagated the falsehood that Kwame Nkrumah's socialism means that there will be hostel for men to visit women who will not work but are to be visited by men to have children. Some churches even went to the extend of telling us that the agricultural policies that were to make Ghana food self sufficient will make the country like Babylon, where the emperor said that God should feed the birds of the sky and he feed his people. We were also told that socialism is about people wearing the same kind of dress, mainly khaki.
  I have four daughters and the last one is seven years old. I bought sanitary for the three who are adults, whiles they were in school and one is still in school.
  The matter is that whiles we to not want to challenge God in the provision of food countries that challenge nature in the provision of food have done better. Among the then developing countries China and India are still using the same method to feed people. I have been informed also that though a Lebanese company import wheat to mill into flour for us the country Lebanon does not import wheat or potato to feed her population.
  I think that the issue if sanitary pads is like a person in need of brush and polish to polish his or her shoes. We are all aware of what polish does for shoes. So it is the same thing that sanitary pads do for women and girls. The fact however is that those parliamentarians against the buying of sanitary pads for girls buy the same for their wives and girlfriends and that is the double standard behaviour of the opposition.
  They believe that people should not challenge nature because by doing so they are challenging God.
  But the acts of a reasonable being is the negation of negation of nature that is the reason why it is only reasonable beings that live in society.

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• DKB 11 years ago

  Get your facts right Kwame. The parliamentarians and opposition are NOT against the buying of sanitary pads. What they are against is taking out a LOAN to buy sanitary pads amongst other things.
  
  Such things like sanitary ...
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  Get your facts right Kwame. The parliamentarians and opposition are NOT against the buying of sanitary pads. What they are against is taking out a LOAN to buy sanitary pads amongst other things.
  
  Such things like sanitary pads, pencils, chalk, text books and uniforms etc should be financed by us Ghanaians from our own resources and taxes. That is the argument of the opposition. Are we such a hopeless and irresponsible country? How can we distribute 100,000 laptops at a cost of GHC 800 each to schools and yet cannot afford to provide the students with essential items like books, chalk, and sanitary pads to the needy?That is what is expected of a responsible government and our leaders. This is the crust of the matter. Distributing laptops when we don't even have contineous power supply may have been a vote winner but a bad decision. Our priorities are messed up, these politicians are taking short term decisions aimed at the next election without a care about the impact it would have on us as a nation.

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• Mr Objective 11 years ago

  Please don't even attempt to change the tune after your grand ignorance has been exposed. Your so-called honorables of parliament have already exposed their ignorance and hypocrisy. Don't waste your time trying to explain wha ...
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  Please don't even attempt to change the tune after your grand ignorance has been exposed. Your so-called honorables of parliament have already exposed their ignorance and hypocrisy. Don't waste your time trying to explain what your honorables meant.We heard them clear enough.
  Forward Ever!
  Backward Never!!
  There is Victory for Us!!!

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• DKB 11 years ago

  Mr Objective, ignorance is allowing politicians to introduce policies which has not been well thought through and supporting them just because you support the party in Govt. I have no honrables but it so happens that the ques ...
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  Mr Objective, ignorance is allowing politicians to introduce policies which has not been well thought through and supporting them just because you support the party in Govt. I have no honrables but it so happens that the questions that came to mind when i heard it is similar to the points raised by the opposition. So you can shelve your brains and just follow blindly if you so wish. If the current economic situation is what you call forward ever, then boy you are one confused individual.

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• Lucy 11 years ago

  Dr. in what? Do we need to go for a world bank loan to buy pads for our girls? Teachers have always helped girls with pads, this is not the problem. The problem is a whole country going out cup in hand to beg for money to buy ...
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  Dr. in what? Do we need to go for a world bank loan to buy pads for our girls? Teachers have always helped girls with pads, this is not the problem. The problem is a whole country going out cup in hand to beg for money to buy pads, why can't we use domestic revenue for this as part of our school heath education program. Dr Mawia take your too knowness and book long back to your country, kwaseeabinti.

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• Kwesi 11 years ago

  Are you a medical doctor or a doctor of philosophy of books?
  
  Whatever, when you write to ghanaweb, note that this is NOT an academic forum. Don't give us any abstract, method, conclusion, bla bla bla. Just give us your re ...
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  Are you a medical doctor or a doctor of philosophy of books?
  
  Whatever, when you write to ghanaweb, note that this is NOT an academic forum. Don't give us any abstract, method, conclusion, bla bla bla. Just give us your report in a journalistic manner.
  
  There is no need to even tell us you're Dr this or that... Reserve those "niceties" to your academic colleagues.
  
  Such things are pretentious on ghanaweb - a place for ordinary Ghanaians like KOLA and my humble self...

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• OPANIN 11 years ago

  Dr. Sakaria,
  Thanks for your article. Very few
  people,if any, are against the idea of supplying sanitary pads to our girls.
  
  The point you are missing is that should we BORROW to do this. Why cannot the government inves ...
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  Dr. Sakaria,
  Thanks for your article. Very few
  people,if any, are against the idea of supplying sanitary pads to our girls.
  
  The point you are missing is that should we BORROW to do this. Why cannot the government invest the $15 million facility in the production of the sanitary pads to make it sustainable and also pay FOR the loan itself.
  
  As per the present conception, the program is not sustainable. It rather brings unnecessary tax burden to the very people it is supposed to help.

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