News

Free sanitary pads to schoolgirls of rural areas

Published

on

Cabinet approval was granted to implement a programme to provide sanitary pads free of charge annually from April 2024 to 800,000 female students studying in schools of rural areas.

The sanitary pads will be distributed among 1.2 million female students who have attained age in remote, isolated, estate and urban schools attended by poor female students.

The total student population in Sri Lanka amounts to four million.

Trending

Exit mobile version