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How your monthly gift can help end period poverty

If you’ve ever been helped out with a spare pad, or tampon – pass on the favour to someone in need. Giving a monthly gift could help women, girls and people who menstruate with the menstrual products they need, every month.

Donation value

£10 per month

could help pay the salary of a nurse to teach girls at schools and girls’ clubs about their menstrual health and reproductive rights. 

£7 per month

could  help fund workshops to teach girls how to make their own reusable sanitary towels.

£3 per month

could help  provide hygiene kits containing sanitary towels for  those  who  can’t  afford them.

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Why we work to end period poverty

Access to menstrual products and safe, hygienic spaces in which to use them is essential for anyone who menstruates. So is the right to manage our periods without shame or stigma

But around the world, millions can’t afford or don’t have access to the safe menstrual products they need. 

A lack of access to menstrual products means some people are forced to manage their periods in dangerous, unsanitary and ineffective ways

And it’s not only the potential health risk – period poverty can also mean girls’ education, well-being, and sometimes entire lives are affected

What ActionAid does

ActionAid work with women and girls, community leaders, men and boys, schools and governments to help end period poverty around the world — once and for all

  • In many of the world’s poorest countries, we provide training on how to make reusable sanitary pads, which are affordable and sustainable.  
  • In our girls’ clubs and safe spaces in schools, we help girls learn about their bodies, menstruation and health, build confidence and come together to advocate for their rights.
  • And in humanitarian crises, we distribute kits containing menstrual products, soap and clean underwear, so women, girls and people who menstruate can manage their periods safely and with dignity.

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Girls like 15-year-old Hibaq are receiving menstrual products and other supplies with ActionAid's help.

Karin Schermbrucker/ActionAid

How ActionAid helps girls like Hibaq

Hibaq, 15, in a refugee living in a camp for displaced people in Somaliland. She and her family fled their home after devastating droughts destroyed their livestock and with it, their livelihood. 

It was a long and dangerous journey for Hibaq to arrive at the camp. And now, she and her sister are struggling to manage their periods safely.

"When we have a period, we need soap and also we need a lot of water and a toilet," Hibaq told us. "But we don’t have all those facilities in our camp."

With your support, ActionAid is supporting people in the camp, and putting women and girls at the heart of our response. We're distributing hygiene kits to women and girls - containing menstrual products and other essentials - so they can manage their periods safely and with dignity.

Share a better period with a girl like Hibaq

About ActionAid

ActionAid is an international charity that works with women and girls living in poverty.

Our dedicated local staff are changing the world with women and girls. We are ending violence and fighting poverty so that all women, everywhere, can create the future they want.

We operate in rural and urban communities across Asia, Africa and Latin America.

We're committed to ending the cycle of violence in communities around the world, enabling women's economic empowerment, and supporting women's and girls' rights during humanitarian crises.

Donate to share a better period

Page updated 27 April 2023