In Rotterdam, girls with low-income parents will be able to purchase sanitary towels and tampons from tomorrow with money from the municipality.
Young people can purchase the products at Hema and pay with the youth credit on the Rotterdampas. The youth credit is an amount of money set aside by the municipality for children from low-income families. The municipality wants to ensure that these children can also participate in school and in their free time. With the youth credit they can buy sportswear and school supplies at affiliated stores and now also menstrual products.
Menstrual Poverty
The reason for the measure is a motion by the PvdA in the Rotterdam city council about menstrual poverty, which means that girls or women have too little money to buy menstrual products.
In Rotterdam, a youth credit of 500 euros applies to children between the ages of 12 and 17. Until now, 17,000 children have received such a credit.
from research It appears that in the Netherlands about one in ten girls and women between the ages of 12 and 25 has had difficulty getting menstrual products because there was no money for them. About two percent also said they sometimes reused a tampon or sanitary towel because of the cost.
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