Students Who Invented Sanitary Pads From Plantain Fibre Get GH₵100,000 Support

A team of two female students from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) – Matilda Asantewaa Sampong and Emilee Otoo Quayson, on Tuesday emerged the winner of season II of the Presidential Pitch and took home a GH¢60,000 investment package.

In addition, they were given GH¢40,000 personal donation by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.

The two, who process sanitary pads using banana and plantain fibre, beat nine others who presented their ideas and answered questions before a panel of judges, in the presence of the President, ministers of state and members of the diplomatic corps, at the Presidential Pitch event in Accra.

According to them, their business, called Floyabana Pads, is mostly targeted at rural women who cannot afford the mostly imported sanitary pads on the Ghanaian market.

They assured that the grants provided to them by government would enable them expand their business.

The Presidential Pitch is a project designed and organised by the Ministry of Business Development to offer young Ghanaian entrepreneurs between the ages of 18 and 35 the opportunity to market their business ideas and get financial assistance to implement those ideas.

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