UK – Charities helping women during the COVID have stated that the poverty hitting women had brought such hardship to the women in the UK where they can not afford sanitary pads.
The drop of job availability has caused the poverty gap in the UK to widen while women suffered the brunt of the economy tanking, losing their source of income and having to resort to taking cutbacks even in their daily amenities.
Many women had shifted to using towels, rags and paper in an effort to handle their lack of basic feminine hygiene needs as the Pandemic ravages the marketplace in the United Kingdom without any new laws or directives helping put more jobs up or save existing ones.
The United Kingdom had been pushing to pay 80% of the wages for furloughed employees who would be called back to work on a part-time basis with the split in salary being the hours worked from the company and the missing hours covered by the government.
The government, recognizing the simplistic yet vital need of women period products launched a scheme in January in an effort to keep girls coming to school, however with schools closed, so too did the free period products being given out to the women still studying.
Notable charities like Freedom4Girls from Leeds have begun drives to help give out free sanitary pads, napkins and other female period products in an effort to keep women away from using old methods of dealing with menstruation which had caused considerable amounts of death and diseases in the days before the first commercial sanitary pad was manufactured and sold.
There have been around 500 packs of tampons, liners and sanitary pads delivered with around 7,500 packs and counting going into the COVID-19 season.
Around 5000 packs had been distributed per month by the Bloody Good Period national charity that had handed over 23,000 packs in 3 months alone since the pandemic forced the country into a lockdown.
“If you can’t manage your periods your emotional mental health is just plummeting,” she said. “The level of deprivation and poverty and people not able to afford products has been growing slowly but this has just exacerbated the issue and I don’t think it’s going to get better any time soon.” says Tina Lesie, person in charge of Freedom4Girls.
