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We need long-term solutions for school girls with no pads

A feminine hygiene product brand recently proudly announced that this month, for every packet of sanitary towels a woman buys from them, they will donate a packet to a girl somewhere so that she does not have to miss classes due to her monthly period.

The average woman has one period a month for four decades. My simple question, “What will these girls do next month?” was immediately deleted and had me blocked from the brand’s social media page.

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