A charity that provides sanitary products to young girls are urging schools in Camberwell to get involved, to help end period poverty.
Currently, the Sacred Hearts Secondary school in Camberwell are involved in the initiative. The school receives free sanitary products from the Red Box Project.
According to Beth Follini (via twitter- @bethfollini) Harris Dulwich Girls, Harris Academy, John Donne School and Ark Globe Academy are also recipients of the initiative
Camberwell Library are receiving donations for Red Boxes. Many volunteers across South East London, are in arms to end period poverty, by donating products or giving money.
The Red Box Project, is a national charity which aims to end period poverty. They want to ensure that no young women miss school because she has her period. They provide free sanitary items such as pads, tampons, tights and underwear to schools.
The red box project provides the schools involved in the initiative with a red box full of sanitary products, in which any of the students can access. To take products they need for their period. Rather than struggling to buy products or using make shift alternatives such as tissue wrapped round their underwear.
Period poverty is when females have a lack of access to sanitary products because of financial constraints. There are currently mutiple initiatives and charities involved in trying to end period poverty (e.g Bloody good period, Always and more locally- Red Box Project).
The monthly costs of maintaining your period, is affecting women, specifically school girls. London Gov, suggests that 80,000 young women are potentially affected. There is a general world wide concern about period poverty.
Many schools have benefited from receiving the Red Box, specifically the Castle View Red Box project who was featured on the BBC. The school noticed at 1/3rdincrease in their attendance.
The drive behind the campaign is to see more London school girls, specifically those in Southwark, to be able to attend school during their period, without thinking about how they will be able to buy the necessary sanitary products.
