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Sanitary pads and tampons. (Natracare/Unsplash)
The ♯HelpHetta Project seeks to address the needs of girls and young women beyond sanitary pads and hygiene products after lockdown restrictions revealed overlooked disparities.
As they struggled to deliver sanitary pads to hundreds of young women during the COVID-19 lockdown, an organisation discovered that the need was far greater than they thought.
Solidarity Helping Hand has been supporting girls from poor families with parcels consisting of sanitary pads and hygiene products. For seven years the group has supported 3,000 girls from 107 schools through the #HelpHetta project.
When the lockdown restrictions imposed last year, they were unable to deliver the parcels to the girls. Over 1,432 more girls applied to receive support from the project support Solidarity Helping Hand could not afford.