Charity started by three friends inspires UK government to tackle 'period poverty.'
She added: “I’ve been ashamed. It’s hard to ask other people for period products when there’s a stigma associated with it.”
In December 2017, she organized a 2,000-strong protest outside No. 10 Downing Street in London, where British prime ministers live. The Scottish Parliament and the National Assembly for Wales — both of which legislate education in their countries — had agreed to fund similar programs. Period poverty affected 1 in 10 British girls aged 14 to 21, according to a 2017 report by the children’s charity Plan International U.K., which also found that 49 percent of girls across the U.K. and Northern Ireland had missed an entire day of school because of being unable to afford feminine hygiene products.
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