The deliberation was adopted unanimously.
This Friday morning, the elected representatives of Nantes city council committed to the city becoming "the first community to offer universal access to periodic protection".
While many initiatives have been born recently around menstrual precariousness, the town hall of Nantes wants to go "further" by offering, by 2023, the guarantee to "anyone who has menstruated, whatever their age or situation. or the reason (troubleshooting, etc.), that she will be able to obtain periodic protection within fifteen minutes of the place where she is.
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Organic cotton
"The experiment begins at the end of 2021 with places of solidarity, such as the Agnès-Varda space," explains Mahaut Berthu, deputy mayor (PS) in charge of equality and gender-neutral cities. Then it will continue with around thirty other places in order to cover all the neighborhoods. »Sports areas, annexed town halls, parks and gardens, even cultural places or cafes may be concerned. “An objective of social justice” for the city which considers that “menstrual insecurity has real health and social repercussions”.
Three types of free disposable protections will be offered in these dispensers: napkins, tampons with and without an applicator.
Mahaut Berthu specifies that they will be intimate protections “100% organic cotton, not bleached with chlorine, without plastic, nor chemical substance, perfume or dye.
A first evaluation will take place in nine months.
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