Period poverty

Our new survey reveals that the cost of living is biting: period poverty is affecting millions of women in Britain today, causing many to use makeshift methods to manage their periods.

Learn about period poverty, the statistics, and how it affects women, girls and people who menstruate around the world: from the UK, to New Zealand, to Kenya.

Get your free ActionAid period pouch - for school, work or on-the-go! Celebrate Menstrual Hygiene Day 2022 with this custom-designed 'share a better period' pouch.

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.

This Christmas, 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. Please donate to our 2021 Christmas appeal.

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.