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The Red Box Project
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We quietly ensure that no young person misses school because they have their period.
Aug 18, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
It would seem, Maya, that you don't fully understand period poverty. We've put together a thread for you.

Our work focused on schools and educational settings - supporting over 5,000 in the UK - and period poverty was, and still is, very much real and 'a thing' in the UK

1/ Period products are widely available, yes, but when your budget is small and spent on other living costs such as rent, energy and food - there's isn't much budget, if any, left for period products

We, sadly, regularly hear of families struggling to purchase period products

2/
Jan 26, 2019 • 14 tweets • 6 min read
A THREAD

We’ve been challenged often since we began #RedBoxProject as to whether #PeriodPoverty is ‘real’

We’ve seen many more comments since @DavidLammy supported #FreePeriods legal campaign for free menstrual products in all schools, so felt a thread could be useful👇 Sceptics tend to focus on the cheapness of supermarket brands (a packet of 12 pads can cost less than £1) & quite often comment on what is seen as a carelessness/ imprudence on part of parents who fail to provide such products for their kids

There’s so much to unpick!