1.55pm: Found myself tapping foot to sanitary pads ad.
Yet she would still be encouraged to switch to sanitary pads by most well-meaning interventions.
Some drop out entirely because they lack access to sanitary products.
Affordable access to sanitary products is rarely talked about outside of NGOs – and when it is, it's with shame or derision.
Her answer: "Finding out more about puberty will also help you deal with the practical side of it, from shaving to sanitary pads".
In her campaign, Mrs. Welsh went to sanitary district meetings and once became so angry that she hurled insults she said she later regretted.
Many girls said access to sanitary pads was a major problem for them, and as a result some schools began to purchase and store these for girls, and other schools set up clubs to make reusable pads.
I do not regret providing such a culture shock to this place – quite the opposite – but that reaction exemplifies why the issue of homeless women's access to sanitary care is so widespread and terribly underestimated".
The women's basic needs, from soap to sanitary towels, are met by donations but even if the women's centre expands to 150 beds as planned, it is unlikely to house them all.
Gandhi wanted to highlight how many women around the world do not have access to sanitary products, and how this restricts their ability to work and go to school.
Some women are forbidden from preparing food or even entering the kitchen, one in five schoolgirls drop out of education when they begin menstruating, and more than 70% of women don't have access to sanitary products.
