PERIODS & VITAL PERIOD PROTECTION IN RURAL ZIMBABWE
Period poverty severely impacts opportunities for women and girls in many parts of the world by restricting their education and employment opportunities. Lack of access to menstrual products and clean sanitary facilities directly impacts women and continuously feeds the poverty cycle. 30% of girls in Africa DROP OUT of school because they fall behind in their studies or are ashamed to attend school after being teased by their peers for soiling their clothes with blood. In rural Zimbabwe I met the Numwa Women’s Support Group, who initiated their sanitary wear project to meet the needs for menstrual protection for girls. With girls often missing up to five days of school a month because of a lack of sanitary protection, that’s almost 25%...