Period poverty

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All around the world, adolescent girls living in poverty face unequal power dynamics that affect their everyday lives. This impacts their capacity to get the support they need, and to make their own decisions about various aspects of their lives.

Your donation could help provide period products for girls so that they don’t miss out on school and the education that is their right. 

We asked whether you’d give a tampon or a pad to someone—anyone—who needed one… even if it was a total stranger in the loo. The results were definitive: our bonds of solidarity haven’t been broken by the pandemic.

Scotland has made history by becoming the first country in the world to make period products free for all. So what’s next in the fight against period poverty?

Katy Chadwick from ActionAid UK and Ruby Bayley-Pratt from Bloody Good Period discuss the reality of periods, periods in a pandemic, and the need to go beyond ending period poverty and towards menstrual equity.