Stop embarrassing girls publicly in the school yards during their menstruation period, pupils from Happy Angel Academy Nursery and Primary School advise their fellow classmates and other schools.
They express their feelings on how they feel bad when boys laugh at other girls and what they wanted them to do.
A 17-year-old pupil, Lona Wani, asks boys to help the girls during their menstrual cycles and will feel glad if she sees both genders are helping each other.
‘Girls should not fear if a boy is helping you’, she says.
14-year-old Francesca Nicola says the period is a natural situation that should not make others react amusingly against their friends.
Another 12-year-old girl, Juma Gadai, advises his fellow friends to give immediate assistance to girls to manage the situation and show how to dress the sanitary pad instead of laughing.
Okay Africa Foundation founder, Data Gordon during his awareness session to the pupils says some parents do not explain and prepare their children to understand their biological condition and how the body grows.
The two boys who presented how to fix the sanitary pads during the menstrual cycle, expressed their readiness to encourage girls who remain at home, but go to school.
Okay Africa Foundation is trying to break the boundaries between the boys and girls and make boys to stop laughing at their classmates or sisters during their period.
It enlightening male mates to continue teaching them how to help, fix the sanitary pad and giving advises.
The event happened during ‘Men for women’ campaign in Juba this week.