In France, nearly two million women would not have the means to regularly obtain sanitary protection.
Victims of menstrual poverty.
In recent months, initiatives have been launched.
At last.
The last, of magnitude, is at the initiative of the department of Puy-de-Dôme which has just decided to equip its 57 colleges of distributors with free periodic protection.
The first was installed on March 8 in La Charme college in Clermont-Ferrand.
It is a "real taboo among young people aged 12 to 17 for family, cultural and societal reasons", highlights the department, considering that "the question of rules is at the heart of the fight against social discrimination and issues for gender equality.
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📌 The #puydedome is committed to the fight against menstrual poverty: 1st Department to equip all its public colleges with free periodic protection distributors.
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– Puy-de-Dôme CD63 (@Departement63) March 8, 2022
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By installing a distributor per college throughout its territory, the community intends to support 14,000 schoolgirls, “of whom it is estimated that 30% of them will use it.
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“The most difficult thing at that age is already knowing their body”
The young girls will benefit from protections "100% organic cotton and without endocrine disruptors", underlines the department which finances up to 57,000 euros the purchase, supply and installation of the machines.
“The hardest thing at that age is already knowing their body, it's the idea that they can be made fun of by the boys or their classmates.
That terrifies them.
Then, it is to find themselves in a situation where they will not have a change”, underlines on France 3 Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes a school nurse.
In 2021, 12% of teenage girls would not have gone to class because they had no protection.
The Brittany region, for its part, equips all of its public and private high schools.
An idea that has already materialized in several French universities in recent months.
The town hall of Nantes (Loire-Atlantique) has also just inaugurated its first self-service distributors.
Thirty machines with a capacity of 300 products each are installed in public places scattered throughout the different districts of the city.
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