Imagine getting your period – but having no pads or tampons, and no clean or safe toilet facilities. Instead, you’re forced to use rags, newspapers or even leaves.
This is the reality for over 500 million women and girls around the world today.
No one should have to choose between food and period products.
No one should miss school, risk infection, or feel ashamed – simply for getting their period.
Periods are normal. Access to period products should be too.
CARE is working with communities around the world to overcome the stigma around menstruation and get essential period products and education to those who need them most.
But we can’t do it without you.
Join the movement to end period poverty once and for all. Add your name today and help us fight for change.