MABOSHE MEMORIAL CENTRE (MMC) WILL BE LAUNCHING A PETITION FOR TAX FREE SANITARY PADS .   For millions of women and girls around the world,...

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MABOSHE MEMORIAL CENTRE (MMC) WILL BE LAUNCHING A PETITION FOR TAX FREE SANITARY PADS .   For millions of women and girls around the world, menstruation can lead not only to cramps, bloating, and mood swings, but it also can lead to days of missed school and lower future economic earnings. Menstruating girls are ripe for childbearing, this particular attitude fuels child marriage. Menstruation is strictly a woman’s business. These attitudes surrounding menstruation are fueled by religion, culture and personal interpretation.The remove of tax on pads will help in education for girls, who are often forced to stay at home due to a lack of access to clean hygiene products, while also facing stigma and a lack of toilets in schools. Periods are among the leading factors for girls to drop out of school in a country where four out of five women and girls are estimated by campaigners to have no access to sanitary pads. Girls and women in rural areas face many challenges when they have their periods, especially in rural areas where a lack of awareness and the cost of pads mean many instead use unsanitary cloth or rags, cow dung, increasing the risk of infections and disease.Maboshe Memorial Centre (MMC) Executive Director Maboshe Patrick will be launching a petition to make sanitary pads tax free in Zambia.The organisation hopes to collect more than 2,000 signatures and will be calling on the Zambian government to remove taxes on the sanitary pads product. Maboshe Memorial Centre (MMC) feels that we have to break the silence and build awareness about the fundamental role that good Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) plays in enabling girls and women to reach their full potential in living a health life by promoting hygiene. Therefore, Menstrual Hygiene is top on the agenda for the Maboshe Memorial Centre (MMC) because MMC prioritize girls’ education. That is why MMC is doing everything possible to ensure a girl child remains in school, the Maboshe Memorial Centre (MMC) team wishes to extend its invitation to interested donor partners and persons to take part in making the program a success by way of partnering, donations and contributions in acquiring sanitary kits.This move will help in providing a means to effectively and affordably manage menstruation in to keeping girls in school, empowering the young women of developing countries to achieve a better quality of life; the petition will be handed over to the Finance Minister.   Issued by the Maboshe Memorial Centre (MMC)Cell # + 260979997382, +260975077808 and +260954655071MMC website: - maboshememorialcentremmc.yolasite.comMMC facebook page: - http://www.facebook.com/maboshememorialcMMC twitter: - https://twitter.com/mmc_officeMMC Blog : https://maboshememorialmmc.blogspot.com/MMC Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/maboshe-memorial-centre-8272718a/

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  1. I agree entirely.  All pads, tampons etc should be tax free in every country in the world under all circumstances.