Education, Global development, Menstruation, Poverty, Society, South and Central Asia, Sri Lanka, Women
‘They use old cloths’: Sri Lanka to give schoolgirls free period products
In a country where women often still resort to rags as sanitary towels, campaigners are trying to break down a damaging taboo
In a village school near the beach, Koshala Dilrukshi teaches English to students from Uswetakeiyawa, a Sri Lankan fishing village. On most days, Dilrukshi says, some of the girls in her class will be missing. They go absent when they have their periods.
It’s not uncommon throughout Sri Lanka. More than half of the adolescents responding to a Unicef study in 2015 did not want or weren’t allowed to go to school during their periods, while 37% miss one or two school days each month. For most, fear of staining, pain and discomfort are the main reasons for not going to school.
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