Nearly 95,000 young girls, aged 9 to 18, sometimes stay at home during their period because they cannot afford hygiene products
, such as tampons, pads or menstrual cups. And when they don’t dry
not at school, students are forced to use toilet paper, newspapers or cloths to handle the problem
, reveal surveys of the most disadvantaged schools.
Free protections in secondary
Unbearable for the very progressive Prime Minister of New Zealand. The government of Jacinda Ardern has therefore decided that all New Zealand secondary school students will have free access to protection in their establishments.
Dignity, a local NGO that collects donations and already supplies schools, welcomed the decision. It’s the same as school toilet paper, which nobody is asking about, said Jacinta Gulasekharam, founder of Dignity, on public radio RNZ. When you don’t have access to basic human needs, it really affects your self-confidence.
France in “experimentation”
Fifteen schools in the Waikato region (north), identified as priorities, will be equipped now. The measure will be extended to the whole country by 2021.
New Zealand is following suit, Scotland, the first in 2018 to offer protections, from school to university. In February, the Scottish parliament extended free access to all women. France is still at “Experimenting” with distributions to the most precarious.
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