A GROUP of Lymm women are to walk around the village on May 24 to raise awareness and donations for girls and women trapped in “period poverty”.
Organiser Jane Savage will be dressed up as a woman’s menstrual pad – so won’t be easily missed.
Jane says 500 million women across the world are trapped in “period poverty”. They either can’t afford sanitary packs, don’t have access to them, or don’t know they exist. As a result women miss work, girls miss school, and none hygienic equivalents are used, which cause serious illness and even death.
Volunteers from Lymm and across Warrington collect second hand materials (avoiding landfill) and lovingly make washable, reusable pad packs. Other volunteers walk them in to developing countries to give away to girls, including menstrual hygiene advice. the volunteers that go to walk them in, also fund raise.
The funds are used to set up marginalised women in micros businesses, so they can produce pad packs for themselves and for their communities.
The event also coincides with World Menstrual Hygiene Day, on May 28.
