What is period poverty?

Beyond a lack of access to sanitary products, period poverty affects a girl’s health, confidence, dignity and even education and employment options.

Choose a grassroots intervention to contribute to in order to prevent period poverty for women and girls below or join Christey from Just Peoples to learn from menstrual hygiene experts, Dr Lucy Odiwa in Tanzania and Sharmin Kabir in Bangladesh, about the realities of life for a girl experiencing period poverty in the communities they serve - and what can be done about it.

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We invite you to support Lucy and Sharmin’s work to help girls manage their periods safely every month, and remove stigma and shame in Tanzanian and Bangladeshi societies.