As a student, I often find myself in embarrassing situations when I need to ask permission to visit the nurse to get a pad. The innate sense of shame young girls feel due to natural biological processes shouldn't be compounded by having to discuss personal hygiene matters with school staff in order to access necessary supplies. This is not only potentially mortifying but also disrupts our learning time.

To make menstrual management more accessible, it's essential that our schools install free pad dispensers in school bathrooms. In 2018, New York, Illinois, and California passed laws requiring public schools to provide free menstrual products in restrooms, a proof of the burgeoning recognition of this issue (source: American Civil Liberties Union, "The Movement to End Period Poverty").There re still plenty of schools where this is going on at and we really need these it's not right for parents and teachers to have to supply all the menstrual products and students may go to the bathroom and there school does have a dispenser but they have to pay like 25,50, or 75 cents just for hygiene. Half the women in the world have half of there money going to menstrual supplies and teens and adults sometimes don't have enough money for this and they can't get the products they need.

Research by Always Confidence & Puberty Survey found that nearly one in five American girls have either left school early or missed school entirely because they did not have access to period products. This is not just about comfort or convenience, but about educational equity and progress, ensuring nothing as natural and inevitable as a period stands in the way of a girl's education.

Let's join hands and make this a reality in our school. It's time to break the silence, bash the taboos, and make menstrual products easily accessible to everyone who needs them. Please sign this petition to extend your support for the cause.