Flickor och unga kvinnor i Ghana påverkas ofta negativt av sin menstruation. Det är inte ovanligt att de stannar hemma från skolan under dagarna då de blöder. Detta innebär att många hamnar efter i skolarbetet och har sämre förutsättningar än manliga klasskamrater att färdigutbilda sig. Mens är också en bakomliggande anledning till att många flickor hoppar av skolan när de kommer in i puberteten.
Fler flickor går i skolan när de har tillgång till mensskydd. Foto: Ben Grey, Flickr.
Vi kliver ur bilen i byn Savelugu i norra Ghana och går mot skolan. Klassrummet är, som så många andra klassrum vi besökt, inrett med träbänkar, fönster utan glas och en svart griffeltavla. Vi har kommit hit för att genomföra intervjuer med elever i syfte att utvärdera ett sexualupplysningsprogram. Intervjuerna börjar alltid likadant: Evelina sätter på diktafonen, Linnea drar ett skämt och så sätter vi igång.
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Sometimes I daydream of a life as a subsistence farmer in Ghana.
What if you lived without electricity and running water and followed the life cycle shaped by your forefathers, deprived of that existential anxiety that seems to grow in modern youth? Whilst the youth get depressed because they fail to achieve the impossible task of reaching unrealistic goals and searching for a purpose in life, village days are spent working on the family’s farm. The satisfaction of harvesting and feeding your family fills you up with pride and allows you to sleep at night.
Krönikör Johan Eriksson. Foto: Alicia Sully
A desynchronized symphony of chickens, donkeys, goats, dogs, crickets and school children wake me up at 7 o’clock every morning. I live with five other people in a tiny house next to the local primary school in Nakom, northeast Ghana. You won’t even find it on the map. Go ahead and give it a try…
Before leaving Accra for Nakom, I had the opportunity to visit a groundbreaking initiative. I came in contact with it through Reach For Change.
There are literary thousands of brilliant ideas idling out there without being realized due to lack of resources and opportunities. Reach For Change is a brilliant organization which support local entrepreneurs to achieve their dreams of a better society. They offer undiscovered talented minds a possibility to unleash the potential of their outstanding ideas. One of which is Street Library.
Perhaps due to a double whammy of prayers from both Muslims and Christians, my computer magically started working again!
So here we go.
My driver accurately maneuvers the car up the tiny winding mountain road. Nothing but uphill all the way through Virunga massive. Altitude somewhere around 1800 meters. Sun is about to rise.
I’m one out of four people jammed in the backseat of a car. It’s hot. My left leg sticking to the policeman’s’ next to me. He’s holding a loaded AK-47 in his left hand.
It’s in the middle of the night. Somewhere in the remote jungle between Vugizo and Makamba, Burundi. Pitch black outside. Our cars’ headlight cutting through the darkness like a knife. Gilbert is driving like an absolute maniac. Way too fast in my opinion. Not according to him. I keep forgetting that another day at the office for him is driving military vehicles in war zones.
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