7 Ways To Tackle Period Poverty In 2018

It’s a heartbreaking reality that one in 10 girls are unable to afford sanitary items here in the UK. Some young women are forced to use old clothes, toilet paper and newspapers as alternative solutions to sanitary products, while others have to rely on friends and foodbanks for handouts.Scotland has made small steps towards tackling the issue of period poverty by offering sanitary pads and tampons for free to women and girls from low income households in Aberdeen.