3 Organizations to Support on World Menstrual Hygiene Day — aSweatLife

Today, May 28, is World Menstrual Hygiene Day. This day raises awareness about period poverty and stigma around the world and celebrates the progress that has been made. Period poverty is the inability to afford access to period products to maintain menstrual hygiene. I first learned about period poverty when I was sixteen. I had never thought about it before, as I was privileged enough to have secure access to period products. It was a big wake-up call for me to hear directly from homeless women about their experience using things like…