New Zealand tackles 'period poverty' with free sanitary products for all schoolgirls

More than 90,000 girls stay away from school because they cannot afford pad or tampons, Jacinda Ardern says

Girls in New Zealand high schools will no longer have to pay for sanitary products after the government announced it would foot the bill in an attempt to stamp out widespread period poverty.

Prime minister Jacinda Ardern said sanitary supplies for a monthly period were not a luxury, but a necessity and too many girls were skipping school because they weren’t able to afford pads and tampons.

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