Girls learn to make masks and sanitary pads
Plan International has supported vulnerable girls from Ghana’s Central Region to learn skills that will help them earn a living and deal with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Girls learning to make face masks and sanitary pads.
Thirty vulnerable girls from Ghana’s Central Region have received training so they can make reusable masks and sanitary pads. These skills will help them earn an income during the COVID-19 pandemic so they can meet their basic needs.
Plan International Ghana’s Richard Buadu was at a graduation ceremony to mark the end of the project and said the organisation had provided thousands of items of personal protective equipment (PPE) to health facilities and communities in the last month and a half.
Preventing the spread of COVID-19
This distribution of PPE is part of the organisation’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and part of wider efforts to prevent the spread of the virus.
Buadu urged the girls to use the knowledge and skills acquired during the training course to be ambassadors and train others in their communities to support them to earn an income.
Buadu also urged them to strictly comply with COVID-19 protocols, especially social distancing, wearing of face masks and regular washing of hands to protect themselves and other community members from contracting the virus.
Emergencies, Skills and work, COVID-19, Livelihoods, Vocational training, Youth economic empowerment in emergencies
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