Can you imagine ...
- Having to choose between food and sanitary napkins?
- Being so desperate that you trade sanitary napkins by performing sexual favors?

What many young girls are forced to endure instead of sanitary napkins.

“... using feathers, goat skin, and soil instead…girls and women (have been found) using newspaper, straw, ash, or sand to absorb menstrual blood… it’s unhygienic and dangerous... bacterial infections of the urinary and reproductive tracts ensue…chronic vaginal discharge.”
- psmag.com

“... having to use cloths, pieces of mattress, tissue paper, and cotton wool to manage their menstruation when sanitary pads were unaffordable to them. They described the cumbersome and non-absorbent properties of these materials which resulted in pain, rashes, leaks, soiled clothes, bad odour, and consequent teasing by classmates.
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