Menstrual Hygiene training underway for Northern Region Female Swimmers

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson

Ten female swimmers in the northern region will be trained on Menstrual Hygiene and general rules of the Swimming Diving and Waterpolo, the National Swimmers Association-(SLSDWA) has confirmed.

The training which is scheduled to hosted in Makeni, will be delivered by Hawa Dauda, the Female Representative of the Sierra Leone Swimming Diving and Waterpolo Association-(SLSDWA).

Speaking to AWE-Media.SL, the SLSDWA Female Representative who doubles as one of the renowned female sports journalists in Sierra Leone, she said: “Female Swimmers are mostly challenged by Menstrual related problems, which has been scaring them away from regular involvements in the sports , and as the female representative I’m staging this training with support from the Association as the first of many clinics underway for our athletes, especially the females.”

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