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 often sleep with men who in turn buy them painkillers and pads. "You see there are men who ask for sex but with a promise to buy us those pads. They know you will not reject his advances because you badly need the towels," she said. Issued by the Maboshe Memorial Centre (MMC) Media Team. WhatsApp #: +260975077808 Airtel Cell #: +260979997382 Airtel Cell #: +260975077808 MTN Cell #: +260768258443 Zamtel Cell #: +260954707760 Email: mmcmonguheadoffice@ymail.com or mmcoffice8@gmail.com Website: - https://mmc695.webnode.com Facebook page: - http://www.facebook.com/maboshememorialc Twitter: -https://twitter.com/mmc_office