Did you know that 1 in 5 girls in the United States, and 1 in 7 in the United Kingdom miss school every year due to lack of period protection? How about the fact that 12 percent of these girls resort to using toilet paper, newspaper, socks, bits of cloth or sometimes nothing due to financial constraints?
Considering sanitary items are a necessity for almost half the population, the numbers are astonishing. To combat period poverty, nonprofits and organizations around the world are raising awareness and setting up collections.
