NDC Women’s Wing in Bono Region celebrates women as it observes International Women’s Day

The Regional Women’s Wing of the National Democratic Congress, the NDC in the Bono Region has congratulated it’s women’s wing and the entire women in the Bono Region as today marks the International Women’s Day.

March 8 every year, is celebrated globally to acknowledge the awesome contributions of women in all economic sectors in the world.

Acknowledging the diverse contributions by the women’s wing in our political space and the general contributions by women in our society, the Bono Regional Women’s Organizer, Hajia Fati Abubakar, urged women, especially those in the Bono Region, to continue to pursue their professions, their careers and their God given talents to greater heights irrespective of the challenges they may face along their way.

The Bono Regional Women’s Organizer promised to champion the course for a better welfare for women in the region. She disclosed that her outfit has embarked on a skill training exercise to offer free training to women who are interested in soap making and other related products in order to earn a decent living.

Hajia Fati Abubakar, who is a professional midwife, particularly urged the young women in the region to take their education with all seriousness to nurture the dreams they have in future.

Hajia Fati Abubakar, appealed to the government to ensure that the cost of sanitary pad, which has been exorbitant of late due to the recent tax components on the product, has been removed to ensure that the ordinary school girls and the young women, can continue to afford the sanitary pad to have a safer and a hygienic menstrual cycle. She continued that the higher cost of sanitary pad affect the education of most school girls who have to stay at home throughout their menstrual days for fear of being exposed with stains for using other forms of materials as pad.

The NPP government in August 2020, at the launch of their 2020 manifesto in Cape Coast, made a promise to take off all the tax components on sanitary pad. ”The vice President, Dr Bawumia at the launch of the NPP 2020 manifesto, promised to establish more factories to produce sanitary pads in Ghana but until that is done in large quantities, we promise to take off all the tax components to reduce the cost of sanitary pad in Ghana” she stated.