MEET JOANNE HUTCHINSON TOUCHING HEARTS MOVEMENT VOLUNTEER.
STREET GIRLS IN LUSAKA ZAMBIA APPEALING TO PRESIDENT HAKAINDE HICHILEMA TO SUPPLY THEM WITH FREE REUSABLE SANITARY PADS AND A PLACE TO SETTLE IN.
With no income, no proper clothing and shelter, away from the other human basic needs which we all know, how do street girls in Lusaka deal with their monthly periods when they can hardly afford sanitary pads leave alone food? While some use dirty pieces of clothes, others have resorted to sleeping with men who in return buy them sanitary pads and painkillers during this time of the month. Vero Banda (Not her real name) from Lusaka’s Kanyama compound has known the streets since 2013 after she lacked school fees, dropped out of school and embraces the cold streets of the capital city. By that time, she was in Grade Nine (9) but unfortunately, her mother passed on leaving her at the mercy of the cruel world Vero told Patrick Maboshe in Lusaka along Cairo Road near the Main Postal Office that she cuts pieces of her handkerchief to prevent the outpouring menses. " I cut into pieces my old clothes and re-use in place of the sanitary pads” she revealed some of the street girls o
On behalf of the Maboshe Memorial Centre - MMC, i would like to thank you Joanne Hutchinson, your family and your organisation Socioeconomic And Environmental Development Solutions (SEEDS) for the support you made through Touching Hearts Movement (THM) of making a donation of 100 pieces of sanitary pads to the vulnerable school going girls who can't afford to buy pads in rural/remote schools of Western province in Zambia, Southern Africa
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