UK fund for women’s sanitary products
Britain launched a global ‘period poverty’ fund and taskforce on Monday to help all women and girls access sanitary products by 2050 and to tackle the stigma around menstruation.
It is estimated that half of all women and girls in poor countries are forced to use rags, clothes, grass and paper during their periods since many can’t afford to buy sanitary products, the UK government said.
A survey by the Children’s Charity Plan International found that 10 per cent of girls in Britain alone have been unable to afford sanitary products.
The government pledged to give, $2.64 million to, organisations working to end period poverty globally, and has also earmarked £250,000 to create a taskforce of government departments, charities and private enterprises to tackle the issue.