Period poverty campaign breaks records
MEDICINE HAT, AB — Celina Symmonds, co-executive director of the Medicine Hat Food Bank, remembers once instance specifically that made the shelter want to collect feminine hygiene products.
“We had a young girl come in and she and her mother had fled family violence and mom was having a really hard time making ends meet and this young girl had been wrapping up toilet paper in her underwear for 3 months so not to ask her mom for feminine hygiene products.”
That experience three years ago prompted the start of a campaign aimed at making sure every woman has access to feminine hygiene products at the food bank.