From Mooncups to blood-wicking pants; homemade pads to pieces of cloth: there is zero lack of ingenuity when it comes to how women over the globe think about period wear. And yet, period poverty is a ...

Confidence Rabutla, Tandi Potgieter and Sharon Gordon. Group 1 Renault The Glen and Dignity Dreams were honoured to help change the lives of 100 girls at Kibler Park Secondary School by giving them ...

MAKONDE, Zimbabwe (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When her monthly period comes, 17-year-old Maria Chaodza dismantles a home-made pillowcase and picks out pieces of its worn stuffing - an old, cloth ...

MUTARE, Zimbabwe — If a girl has enough money to buy three disposable sanitary pads, but she needs at least eight, how many days of school will she miss when she gets her period? These types of ...

For millions of women and girls in India, menstruation still remains taboo. The lack of access to affordable products, hygiene facilities and awareness of menstrual health can negatively affect their ...