Period poverty - FAQs

Footnotes

  • 1https://www.stevenage.gov.uk/waste-and-recycling/reusable-period-products-scheme
  • 2https://www.joghr.org/article/32436-period-poverty-why-it-should-be-everybody-s-business
  • 3https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/education/menstrual-health-and-hygiene-what-role-can-schools-play
  • 4https://www.girlsnotbrides.org/learning-resources/child-marriage-and-education/common-drivers-of-child-marriage-and-a-lack-of-quality-education-for-girls/
  • 5https://plan-international.org/srhr/teenage-pregnancy/
  • 6https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/education/girls-education-conflict-most-risk-heres-how-reach-them
  • 7https://www.girlsnotbrides.org/learning-resources/child-marriage-and-education/
  • 8https://mashable.com/article/words-for-periods
  • 9https://plasticfree.org.uk/2024/10/02/seeing-red-on-period-plastic/
Top image: Aida, 16, at her school in Malawi, which is part of a reusable sanitary towel project. Samantha Reinders/ActionAid

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