A movement to hang sanitary napkins next to women's restrooms is spreading across China.
On the 8th local time in the UK, the Guardian and other foreign media reported on a campaign under the name of'Stand by her' to address the'menstrual poverty' problem in China and to raise awareness of menstruation.
This campaign is one of the women's movements and aims to help female students who have difficulty buying sanitary pads due to financial difficulties, while eliminating the false perception of being ashamed of or hiding the natural physical activity of menstruation.
The campaign started with the appearance of a box of free sanitary napkins in a girl's bathroom in a middle school in Hong Kong in October 2019, and the campaign is now being conducted at more than 300 universities and middle and high schools across China.
Any woman can take the sanitary napkin out of the box and use it, but after using it, you can bring one back and write down the brand and size on the sanitary napkin packaging to prevent any allergies.
“Parental thinking and incomplete biology classes taught girls to feel ashamed of menstruation,” said Fiona Fey, a student at Guangxi University, a participant in the campaign. “We want to break this shame together.”
3rd grade student Wang Ping, who installed 10 sanitary napkin support boxes at Yunnan Province's Central National University, said, "There is a desire to end menstruation shyness. We will not avoid talking about this issue and will respond head-on." It.
As of the 10th, on Weibo, a Chinese version of the Twitter, the number of search views for the hashtag'sanitary aid box' exceeded 200 million, and the public's interest continues.
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