The Greater Soweto Bikers (GSB) and the JMPD hosted a sanitary towel schools run campaign for different schools in the area of Soweto on September 08.
Seven different schools including Tsietsi Mashinini, Sebetsa High, Hector Peterson, Naledi High, Aurora Girls, St Mathews and Beyers Naude received donations of sanitary towels.
Secretary General of GSB, Philly Ntshala said the group’s mission is to help maintain young women’s self-confidence throughout that time of the month in order to restore their dignity.
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“As fathers to young girls, we have been made fully aware that there are families in our community that struggles to provide sanitary towels for a girl child whenever it is time of the month, so that’s why we took it upon ourselves to provide sanitary towels to a girl learner in any school around Soweto, every year in August,” said Ntshala.
Ntshala added that people need to know that bikers are not hooligans and they are not dangerous but they are human beings who are trying to give back to the community and also play a positive role to the society.
1000 packs of sanitary towels were supplies and each stakeholder representative prepared a brief presentation for the learners in each school they visited.
“I find it encouraging to see a group of men coming together to bring change in the community especially for a girl child. Honestly it makes me thrilled to see that we still do have men who are willing to take care of a girl child without expecting any sexual payment in return,” said JMPD officer, Georgina Nxumalo.
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Learners were excited to engage with different people from the GSB as well as the officials from the JMPD.
“I would like to thank the JMPD and the Greater Soweto Bikers for taking their time and coming here in our school to donate sanitary towels for the learners.
“Most students in our school come from disadvantaged families so this initiative will help bring change to our schools,” said Beyers Naude Principal.
