The GFA Foundation has partnered with Goals For Flow to promote Menstrual Health and Hygiene in Ghana.
The partnership advocates for increase access to menstrual products, reduce stigma, empower women and girls, promote policy changes, and contribute to Sustainable Development Goals 3 and 5, that is Good Health and Well-being as well as Gender Equality respectively.
Goals For Flow has already distributed about 10,000 biodegradable sanitary pads to over 500 girls and women in 5 communities within a year and aims to do more in the succeeding years.
The GFA Foundation has an objective to initiate and support projects and programmes that will improve lives and livelihoods of football people (both men and women) and communities.
‘Flow Cup’ Football Tournament
In order to increase the awareness on menstrual hygiene, the GFA Foundation and the Goals For Flow is organizing a ‘Flow Cup’ Football Tournament on Saturday, 16th September, 2023 at the McDan La Town Park in Accra. The competing women teams are La Ladies Football Club, Teshie Constant Ladies Football Club, Valued Girls Football Club and Ridge City Football Club.
The football games will be preceded by a women’s’ health and empowerment advocacy workshop moderated and facilitated by experienced female health experts, high-profile women professionalsand some notable women football role models in Ghana. All the female footballers from the 4 Teams will be given 6 months’ supply of sanitary pads and other menstrual hygiene products.
The women football tourney will drive conversations and actions towards period poverty and other menstrual health challenges. Period poverty describes the struggle many low-income women and girls face while trying to afford menstrual products.
Abena Soreno Yankyera, Founder of Goals For Flow stated, "Our journey is guided by the vision of a world where menstrual health is a right, not a privilege, and where every woman and girl can live a life of dignity and well-being."
The Director of the GFA Foundation, Malcolm Frazier Appeadu indicated that “The Foundation working with likeminded organizations will use football and its outcomes as an advocacy tool to remove all challenges and impediments affecting the welfare of women and gender equality.
The general public especially football fans, women centered NGOs and groups are encouraged to participate in this event.