Women And Girls Use Sand, Ashes In Place Of Sanitary Pad In Borno

Founder of Complete Care and Aid Foundation, Hajiya Aisha Wakil, popularly called Mama Boko Haram has revealed that due to the  Boko Haram insurgency in troubled Borno State, women and girls use sand and ashes in place of sanitary pad during their monthly menstrual cycle, according to ThisDay reports.

In her words, Wakil said:

 One of the effects of insurgency is that women and girls are using sand and ashes in place of sanitary pad for their menses and this is unhygienic and unhealthy for women and girls.

Menstrual pad is a luxury for poor women in Borno. Strange as it may sound but poor women and girls in community and IDP camps are still using rags filled with sand, or ashes as an alternative for sanitary napkins during their menstrual period, thus exposing themselves more to vaginal infections.