By Emmanuel Tarpeh Quiah
PLEEBO SODOKEN DISTRICTOCTOBER 24, 2025: The Village Financial savings and Mortgage Affiliation (VSLA) of Pleebo Sodoken District has accomplished a serious donation train, distributing sanitary pads to a number of elementary, junior, and senior excessive faculties throughout the district.
The initiative which concluded on Tuesday, October 21, 2025, reached a variety of public, non-public, and faith-based establishments together with Jasper Grant United Methodist Excessive Faculty, St. Stephen Episcopal Excessive Faculty, O.S. Collins Baptist Excessive Faculty, Liberia Christian Meeting (LCA) Excessive Faculty, St. Andrew Lutheran Excessive Faculty, and the First Meeting of God Excessive Faculty.
Different beneficiaries of the gesture embody LAB4LAB ECD and Elementary Faculty, Sodoken Demonstration Elementary Faculty, Sodoken Central Excessive Faculty, Pleebo Neighborhood Faculty, LAB4LAB Excessive Faculty, St. Francis Catholic Excessive Faculty, and Pleebo Excessive Faculty, amongst others.
In the course of the donation ceremony, Pleebo Sodoken District VSLA President Madam Maroline Geekor highlighted the significance of menstrual hygiene in maintaining ladies at school. She defined that many feminine college students are pressured to go away lessons throughout their menstrual intervals as a result of they lack sanitary supplies.
“Generally we see our ladies within the streets whereas faculties are nonetheless in session, and if you ask them, they are going to let you know they’re sick,” Madam Geekor mentioned. “Although these sanitary pads is not going to meet their complete wants, that shouldn’t be the explanation why they are going to depart college.”
She additional famous that offering sanitary pads inside faculties will make sure that ladies can handle their intervals with dignity, consolation, and confidence. Madam Geekor additionally appealed to highschool directors to make use of the objects strictly for his or her meant objective and urged different humanitarian people and organizations to emulate the gesture.
For her half, VSLA Secretary Madam Martha W. Williams mentioned the donation fashioned a part of the group’s annual social accountability to establish with underprivileged and susceptible teams locally on the finish of every saving yr.
“We see this as a means of giving again to the group and supporting our ladies to stay targeted on their training,” Madam Williams acknowledged. She additionally praised college directors for his or her tireless efforts in nurturing college students and inspired dad and mom to play an energetic function of their youngsters’s progress.
In response, a number of college directors expressed gratitude to the VSLA ladies for his or her considerate gesture. They described the donation as well timed and impactful, particularly for feminine college students who typically face difficulties managing their menstrual intervals throughout college hours.
“This help will make an enormous distinction within the lives of our ladies,” mentioned one college administrator. “We’re grateful to the VSLA ladies and encourage different group teams to do the identical.”
The Village Financial savings and Mortgage Affiliation’s initiative has been extensively praised throughout Pleebo Sodoken District as a mannequin of community-driven help for training and ladies’s empowerment.
