For international women day, I spoke to @riberalxve about how "For Homeless Women Periods Are Overlooked."
Since 2015 many women have brought up the ongoing case regarding homeless women living on the streets without available access to sanitary products. Women have showcased this by writing blogs and actively getting out there to support this problem.
Since then Campaigns like The Homeless Period and Period Poverty and other major organisations have been taking a full charge in making changes to the system by offering free access to sanitary products. They’ve even gone as far as contacting the Government and Parliament to make these changes in many homeless shelters as such things like condoms are accessible throughout the UK.
Even though these changes are taking place, still many women that are living on the street don’t know about this as the information hasn’t been passed on accordingly. If all of us this International Women’s Day was to bring awareness to this cause by sharing the information around it would make our voices heard.
No woman looks forward to their period. It can start unexpectedly, and you can find yourself scrambling through your bag hoping to find one tampon or pad so that you wouldn’t have to deal with the humiliation of having to ask someone. But for a woman living on the street, you don’t have the choice to ask or to think “I’ll get one on my break”. Women on the street don’t physically have the money to afford sanitary products, meaning they have gone to great lengths to create ones with toilet roll, socks, newspaper, you name it. This doesn’t just cause discomfort but can lead to infection and serious health problems.
Pictures from @thehomelessperiodproject
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