Tagajo City, Miyagi Prefecture, solicited donations from companies to support children who cannot obtain sanitary napkins due to financial difficulties caused by the new coronavirus, and free sanitary napkins at elementary and junior high schools in the city. We have started an initiative to distribute at.
As the number of people in financial distress due to the new coronavirus increases and the so-called "physiological poverty" that makes it impossible to buy sanitary products becomes a social problem, Tagajo City received donations from five companies including the city. On the 7th, we started an initiative to install supplies in the women's toilets of 10 elementary and junior high schools in the city.
Of these, at Municipal Takasaki Junior High School, a case containing 20 sanitary napkins is placed on the wash basin of the women's toilet, and the sanitary napkins also include a message with the contact information of the administrative window and children's cafeteria where you can consult about financial support. It is attached.
According to the city, it is expected that the method of soliciting support from companies will have the effect of increasing the momentum for solving problems in society as a whole.
This is the first such initiative in Miyagi prefecture and rare in Japan.
Mayor Kosuke Fukaya of Tagajo City said, "I think there are many children who grew up in needy families and can't speak up easily, so I would like to play a role as an administration so that we can connect to welfare through the provision of sanitary products." I was talking.