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cost of living crisis. we meet the south african woman who used her own experiences of period poverty to help empower girls in hundreds of schools by delivering free pads. welcome to istanbul, where the people of turkey have gone back to the polls for the second round of the turkish presidential after two weeks ago, none of the candidates managed to reach over 50% of the vote. let me show you where i am. this is one of hundreds of thousands of polling stations across turkey. schools are where the voting tends to happen and there has been a steady stream of people coming in. there is a board by the door and it shows which classroom corresponds to the ballot box they have been allocated. and then they had inside underneath a huge turkish flag which is hanging from the ceiling, where they get a far simpler ballot paper than two weeks ago, because that time they were presidential and parliamentary elections. people have been telling me today that the ballot paper was so lon ....
russia unleashes a wave of air strikes on kyiv in what appears to be the largest drone attack on the ukraine capital since the start of the war. britain s government is discussing plans for supermarkets to cap the price of basic food items to help tackle the rising cost of living crisis. and we meet the south african woman who used her own experiences of period poverty to help empower girls in hundreds of schools by delivering free pads. the people of turkey have gone back to the polls for the second round of the turkish presidential election with voting now under way in a presidential election run off between these two men long time authoritarian leader recep tayyip erdogan and his main rival, the secular opposition leader, kemal kilicdaroglu. here they are voting in the last hour. in the first round earlier this month, president erdogan won 49.5% of the vote just over 4% more than his rival. both candidates are chasing support from nationalist voters. earlier our ....
At school because i used to get my period at school. to an extent, having blood was i menstruated too early for my other peers. tamara is not alone. it is estimated around 30% of girls in south africa do not attend school because they don t have access to sanitary products. this is thought to be because around 7 million south african girls cannot afford tampons or pads, which is really setting them back in their education, something tamara is trying to change. when i set up this business, i didn t think within two years of me operating, people would believe in what i do strongly enough to nominate me for forbes, so when that happened, it was that confirmation that i m doing something right and i was called to do this. it s my calling, it s my destiny, and it s my purpose in life because then it encourages more people to do better. tamara has delivered free pads to hundreds of schools in south africa, and she s hoping to expand her work across the continent. ....
Africa. i made a choice deep within me that i don t want to see anyone go through what i went through. i was very, very bullied at school because i used to get my period at school. to an extent, having blood was i menstruating too early for my other peers. tamara is not alone. it is estimated around 30% of girls in south africa do not attend school because they don t have access to sanitary products. this is thought to be because of 7 million south african girls cannot afford tampons or pads, which is really setting them back in their education, something tamara is trying to change. when i set up this business, i didn t think that within two years of me operating, people would believe in what i do strongly enough to nominate me for forbes so when that happened, it was that confirmation that i m doing something right and i was called to do this. it s my calling, it s my destiny, and it s my purpose in life because then it encourages more people to do better. ....