Daily Chronicle
Cynthia Obasaiki, a corps member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), serving with Divine International Secondary School, Bauchi state has sensitised 100 female students on menstrual and personal hygiene.
Obasaiki, who also sensitised the pupils from Government Day Secondary School, Gwallameji, Bauchi, on menstrual pain precautions, donated 100 sanitary pads to them as part of her Community Development Service (CDS) project on Wednesday.
Speaking after the exercise, the Bauchi State Coordinator of NYSC, Alhaji Namadi Abubakar, appreciated the corps member for imparting knowledge to the youths.
Represented by Mrs Gbemisola Salami, Assistant Director, Community Development Service (CDS), Abubakar said corps members were expected to make their host communities better than they met them.
He urged the students to build themselves more on what they had learnt to benefit themselves and impart the knowledge on their friends and family.
He said that, CDS project was one of the cardinal programmes of the scheme calling on other corps members to emulate the gesture.
The Coordinator said the scheme encouraged corps members to initiate projects of their choice that would make a positive impact on the lives of people in their host communities.
Earlier, The Batch A corps member with registration number BA/21A/2040, said she carries out the project based on her passion to make a positive impact in the lives of young girls.
“When I came to Bauchi, I looked around to see where I could come in as a corper to see how I could make an impact.
“I don’t believe in the society just only giving me but I believe in trying to make an impact in the society too.
“I looked around and saw the way young girls are living without knowing the true meaning of personal hygiene and even when they are seeing their menstruation, they feel disgusted about it.
“I had to come up with this project in order to encourage them to feel good about their personalities as females and to also teach them how they can take care of themselves during or after menstruation as well as how to use sanitary pads,” she said.
Obasaiki, however, revealed that the cost implications of her personal project was N60,000.
In his remarks, the school principal, Mr Shehu Balteh, appreciated the corps member for executing such an educative project and urged the students to put in practice what they have learned.