Why donating period products can change girls' 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.
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Purity, 13, attends an ActionAid-supported catch-up centre in Kenya, where she is getting the education that is her right. Photo: Esther Sweeney/ActionAid
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#ShareABetterPeriod, this Menstrual Hygiene Day! Photo: ActionAid
Would you give a tampon or pad to a stranger who needed one?
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.
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Adolescent girls
Find out how ActionAid works with adolescent girls through empowerment and education.
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Harriet, from Uganda, trains girls in how to make their own reusable sanitary pads. Photo: ActionAid
Well done, Scotland! Now let’s tackle period poverty everywhere
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?
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bloody good period. Photo: ActionAid
Periods & pandemics: the call to end period poverty must be louder than ever
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.
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Susan, from Uganda, has enjoyed receiving sanitary pads and learning about managing her periods at ActionAid workshops. Photo: Esther Mbabazi/ActionAid
Share a better period
Please donate to help end period poverty around the world, and share a better period with those in need. This Menstrual Hygiene Day, share a better period.
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