World Menstrual Hygiene Day is in a week, and period poverty is not a thing of the past; girl children miss school, women miss work and they miss out on life because affording a sanitary pad in South Africa is a problem. Statistics show that 8-million girls or women suffer from period poverty, and that 4-million of them are in school, where one in three schoolgirls miss between four and five school days each month and up to 60 school days each y…
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