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Many Australians are resorting to using toilet paper, socks or other unsuitable alternatives to manage their period, according to research done by charity Share the Dignity.
The Period Pride report, which is based on responses from more than 125,000 Australians, found that more than one in five people who menstruate have been forced to improvise on period products due to the cost.
Around half of those surveyed admitted to wearing a pad or tampon for more than four hours, due to not having enough products to get by.
Share the Dignity Founder and Managing Director, Rochelle Courtenay, told SBS News that she was alarmed with the number of women putting their lives at risk because they don’t have funds to buy more sanitary items.
Vending machine delivers period dignity to Moama women
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Founder of Share the Dignity Rochelle Courtenay and the organisation s initiatives manager Claudette Laidlaw with one of the vending machines.
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As part of the movement to deliver dignity to menstruating women living below the poverty line, a vending machine for free period products has been installed at Echuca-Moama s women s health centre.
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A vending machine has been installed at Echuca-Moama s women s health centre
It s estimated the machine will dispense around 100 packs of pads and tampons per month
Placed by the charity organisation Share the Dignity, which has 350 similar machines around Australia, it is the charity s first foray into the northern Victorian and southern New South Wales region.
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Subscriber only After years of community fundraising and successful Share the Dignity initiatives, Rose City residents in need will finally have access to free period products for the first time. The new Dignity Vending Machine or Pinkbox is installed at Warwick Hospital in the disabled toilet next to the pharmacy, and dispenses free packs of six tampons or two pads up to every 10 minutes. The Warwick Hospital Pinkbox was funded by comedian and social media star Christian Hull and his mother, Karen, with the pair raising more than $18,000 for Share the Dignity in the past two years. GREAT CAUSE: Julie Unwin is the team leader for Share the Dignity in Warwick and encourages anyone with the means to do so to donate to the campaign, It s In The Bag.
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THE fight to end period poverty across Queensland is set to continue, with the renewed backing of one of Ipswich’s largest retail chains.
Share the Dignity, a charity which provides sanitary products to females in need, this week announced it had partnered with Booval Fair Shopping Centre for its fourth consecutive year.
It comes as part of the organisation’s March Dignity Donation Drive, in which 20 donation points are to be established at Retail First shopping centres across south east Queensland.
The organisation is now calling upon the Ipswich community to do its part, by providing tampons, pads, liners, period underwear, menstrual cups, and incontinence products.
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