CEO of Eco-me Africa Amdiya Abdul-Latiff has revealed that some young girls in rural areas are being forced to have sex with men in order to get money for sanitary pads. According to her, many of the girls are from deprived homes and are unable to afford decent sanitary towels for the monthly menstrual cycle. Speaking with Prime Morning host, Asieduwaa Akumia, on Monday, Amadiya Abdul-Latiff indicated the ordeals the teenagers go through to obtain common sanitary pads. “They were resulting in unhygienic means like using socks – which are very popular by the way, newspapers, dirty rags, and then dried leaves. They are easily available in the rural communities, so anything at all that can absorb and hold blood, that’s what they use,” Mrs. Abdul-Latiff said. The Eco-me Africa CEO further said that she was posted to a school in a rural community as a pupil’s teacher. It was there that she witnessed the difficulties that girls in primary schools are forced to face. This situatio...