The Melcom Care Foundation, a subsidiary of the Melcom Group of Companies has extended its support to females in five Senior High Schools in Accra.
The support came in the form of donations of new under garments to the schools – Achimota Senior High School, Accra Girls Senior High School, Nungua Senior High School, Accra Wesley Girls Senior High School and St. Theresa’s School.
The Melcom Care Foundation was set up primarily to provide a support system for critical areas, which might have otherwise not fit into the direct state budget.
According to the Director of Communications, Mr. Godwin Avenorgbo, it is required of every good corporate citizen to invest and re-invest not only in their line of business, but in human resource and the national development effort.
He indicated that his outfit in the last couple of years has become well recognised for fulfilling its mission of care, as their contribution to Girl-Child Education in Ghana.
“This year, however, our attention has been drawn to an area of the girl-child need, which has not been highlighted for public attention and support,” he added.
It is in this light that they decide to provide about twenty thousand Girl-Brassiers to be distributed to these schools.
Melcom Care believes that as a nation there is the need to invest resources in creating capacity for home grown production of many of these basic needs of the younger population. Also, he stipulated the importance of producing in Ghana to save cost of the import bill and Chanel it into providing developmental needs of Ghanaians.
He made reference to video publication of a new development showing the process of manufacturing sanitary pads from the banana plant from start to finish saying, the country equally has bananas so the country can equally do same.
“We grow cotton in Ghana and same can be used to make GIRLS-BRA and other underwear’s as well as Sanitary Pads, which consume so much foreign exchange and attract too many taxes thus making these basic products out of the reach of the common people; particularly the young female school children who come from poor or average income homes”, Mr. Avenorgbo explained.
The Accra Wesley Girls’ Assistant Headmistress in charge of Administration, Gifty Koranteng, thanked the Melcom Group and assured them that the package would be very helpful to the female students.
She concluded by pleading with everyone to buy from Melcom so they could do more to help the nation as a whole.
