People are claiming period poverty 'isn't real' and we're having none of it
Although the news is good, it’s undeniably overdue. This is something that female students have had to deal with since, well, forever. Ain 2017 by charity Plan International found that 10% of girls and women aged 14-21 had been unable to afford menstrual products. Over 137,700 children in the UK have missed school because of period poverty. And 68% said they felt less able to pay attention in class at school or college while menstruating.
“I tried to use toilet roll but it wasn’t great because I was very heavy. Eventually I got in trouble for bleeding onto my underwear and got given Asda smart price sanitary towels. Bulky awful plastic things that flooded straight away.” “I’ve known homeless women too who had to just free bleed, ruining the few items of clothing they had, ending up with sores and matting and pain from the dried blood with no facilities to wash or clean themselves. There is no way in which providing this products for free is bad.
Linka then called for people to donate to the Bloody Good charity, which is working to end period poverty in the UK, or to Action Aid, which is working to end global period poverty.
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