Zimbabwe: Rural Girls Still Struggle to Get Sanitary Towels

About 72% of schoolgirls in rural areas do not use commercial sanitary wear, resorting to unhygienic means, while 62% miss school every month while menstruating, an official has said.

Pepukai Chivore, Parliament's budget office director, told a stakeholders meeting on gender sensitivity in the education budget jointly organised by Education Coalition of Zimbabwe and Plan International, that there was need to respect provisions of the Education Amendment Act.

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