#EndPeriodPoverty
If a girl misses school every time she has her period, she is set 145 days behind her fellow male students.
40% of girls in the UK have used toilet roll because they couldn’t afford menstrual products
68% said they felt less able to pay attention in class at school or college while menstruating.
Menstrual products cost more than £18,000, in a women’s life (£13 every month)
Period poverty is the lack of access to sanitary products due to financial constraints. this can be caused by a wide range of life events that negatively impact on a girl or woman’s ability to access sanitary products to manage a most intimate and regular occurrence in her life.
Period poverty is the inability to afford sanitary products such as tampons. but it can also relate to a lack of understanding of menstruation. Governments have come under fire for matters such as the tampon tax. which is thought to contribute to period poverty Tampon tax was abolished in the UK on Jan 1st 2020 after no longer being mandated by the EU’s VAT directive. but still women are finding it difficult to afford or access essential sanitary products.We are committed to making sure that girls and women have access to sanitary products when they find themselves unable to afford them.
Togther. we will
#ENDPERIODPOVERTY
If your school or community group wishes to have a Period Poverty box from us, free of charge, with free refills, please email:
