Affected Women
What % of women in Ghana often miss school due to their period?
95%
What do schools lack?
- Accessible water
- Sanitation facilities
- Access to feminine hygiene products
What is the name of the organization making a large impact in Ethiopia?
UNICEF
What does there need to be more education around?
The importance of accessible feminine hygiene products and bathrooms
What % of the world population experiences exceptionalities?
15%
What challenges do women with vision impairments face?
- Knowing if they have fully cleaned themselves
- Accessible and easy-to-read materials tailored to support them about pain communication and educating on health and hygiene
True or false: Women with exceptionalities should be treated differently than those without?
False
What needs to be done to feminine hygiene products?
Make them more expensive
Lower the cost
Make them all pink
Lower the cost
What % of the world population with exceptionalities live in low or middle-income countries?
80%
What is the lifetime cost of a period in Canada?
Canadian menstruators are estimated to spend up to $6,000 on menstrual
hygiene products in their reproductive lifetimes
Name the app that currently exists to improve user experience
Clue
Who needs to become more educated about the importance of accessible feminine hygiene products?
Women
Men
Politicians
Everyone
Everyone
How many menstrators in India use unsafe materials, such as ashes and mud to manage their period?
88%
What challenges do women with physical impairments in the upper body?
- Placing sanitary products in the correct position
- Washing themselves and menstrual materials
What 3 things can be done to help make a difference?
End discrimination, get educated, raise awareness
How can we fight period stigma?
By having open conversations about the importance of destigmatizing everything to do with feminine hygiene.
On estimate, how many people does period poverty affect world wide?
Around 500 million
What are the steps that UNICEF developed? (4)
1. Combat stigma discrimination
2. Provide access to information
3. Provide infastructure
4. Provide affordable access to sanitary materials
Which criteria must be met for all women?
WASH
What is important for non-disabled people to continue to do?
Create/leave space for people with exceptionalities to have a voice in the conversations surrounding feminine hygiene.