
26/04/2024
M’buka primary school emerges tops on sanitation & hygiene standards
“If I’m having my period, I can still come to school and use the change room so that I’m not absent from classes. If I don’t have pads, I can go to head-teacher to say, can you give me emergency pads? They can give me, they do give me." Ester Chunga a standard seven pupil
M’buka LEA school in Lilongwe’s Area 36, has outsmarted three other schools in a project aimed at promoting menstrual health and hygiene in the learning centres. For this outstanding feat, the school received a K600, 000 cheque from WaterAid Malawi while the three runners up all got water tokens...