Easy PAD Movement: Hauwarh Abdulraheem Is A Philanthropist -By Hassan Idris

It’s true that a woman’s power shouldn’t be underestimated because women are producers, consumers, and innovators. They are resourceful economic agents, proving every day that they can succeed, often in the face of persistent gender barriers. A “day without a woman” means fewer women working to keep the production and service industry up; fewer women taking care of children, the elderly and all of us; fewer women spending money on goods that drive our economy. Simply put, when women don’t work, the economy and society don’t either.

An investment in women’s economic empowerment is also an investment in the entire community. Women are more likely than men to reinvest whatever time and money they have into their families, and their children’s health and education in particular.

The health, education, and social service industries would collapse without women’s participation. In office settings, it is women who consistently pick up the invisible but essential tasks that keep the gears turning — from mentoring staff to administration work. And teams with greater gender diversity arrive at quicker, more creative solutions.

When you invest in girls and women, it creates a powerful ripple effect that goes way beyond the individual — it powers progress for all. Women wield significant economic power. Women are not, in fact, vulnerable victims, but committed change-makers, capable of powering economies and driving progress. We simply cannot afford to continue underestimating women’s economic power. As we like to say, women deliver, and so much more than babies. It is urgent that we, in turn, deliver for them.

They are many women out there who can’t afford sanitary pads for their natural monthly periods, they suffer from menstrual problems and lack of, or poorer enlightenments on menstrual hygiene. Well, out of love, philanthropy and boldness, Hauwarh Abdulraheem, an Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria-Nigeria student, bibliophile, writer, poetess, activist and philanthropist, took a bold step and volunteer to create a movement for women in Zaria, Kaduna state, Nigeria called’, Easy Pad Movement (EPM) to which it aims at enlightening and distributing sanitary pads to young women. In this year, 2021, a public lecture on Menstrual Hygiene was held which witnessed presents of many personalities and health workers such as; Aisha Kabir and capacitated prolific writer, Zee Aslam who graced the program.

Note that” if you have at least one female in your life, this movement belongs to you. A girl child can’t stop bleeding, but we can help her bleed confidently, comfortably and healthy”

However, in Hauwarh’s voice, “I took a chance on humanity and to my greatest surprise, it didn’t disappoint me. I didn’t plan EPM, it happened. To whoever is out there who think nothing can be done in this country, this is a prove that you are wrong. To whoever is out there who think there’s nothing they can help with, this is a prove that you are wrong.

I made a post few weeks ago and it gave birth to a movement but not only that, it gave birth to giving 32 girls two packs of pad.Some of these girls are going to use pad for the first time. We gave them “their one day”, it is their dream come true.”

Hassan Idris.
Sociologists.
A.B.U Zaria-Nigeria.
idrishassan035@gmail.com