Lack of access to sanitary products, menstrual hygiene education, toilets, hand-washing facilities and/or waste management, also known as period poverty, has been an issue for decent number of young females in the past decade, but the situation additionally worsened since the Covid-19 pandemic began leaving almost a quarter of U.S. students struggling to access period products.
In the last couple of years, dozens of states tried, but only a few successfully managed to pass bills which will require public elementary and high schools to provide free menstrual products for female students. Women’s Voices For The Earth is a nonprofit advocacy group pushing for free pads, tampons and other products in school’s restrooms, but they say this change is going slower than expected.
While female students who can’t afford these ‘elementary hygiene products’ still remain victims of the politicians’ calculations, a teacher from Texas decided to try and help her female students on her own. What should have been just a simple small local donation call, ended up to be national story reported by several major news outlets few days ago.
According to the CNN, Kylie DeFrance teaches English and her students are between the ages of 12 and 14. This is the time that most girls start their menstruation cycle, according to The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. DeFrance became aware that her students were in need of multiple types of pads since the school provided only one type of pads.
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