The cost of living crisis influencing students purchasing period products.

 Image sourced from Share the Dignity website publicaly available social media tiles.

 Have you or anyone you know ever struggled to purchase period products? It’s more common than you may think.

An Australian charity, Share the Dignity, has taken off in the past couple of years, bringing light to the issue of period poverty. They collect period products and donate them to those in need.

I was fortunate enough to chat to the founder and managing director of Share the Dignity, Rochelle Courtenay.

“If you have a look at our bloody big survey, you can see that 24 percent of university students cannot afford period products. And so we’re really going to push to advocate for place any person gets an education that needs menstrual products will have them”

TAFEs and universities generally don’t supply free period products or bins in all toilets.

Within the female bathrooms of AFTRS, teachers and students donate extra products like period products or even toiletry items that are accessible to female identifying students.