Tampons and menstrual pads are just as important as toilet paper!

According to a study conducted by “Free The Tampons”, 86% of women have started their period in public without access to menstrual products. As a result, they spend time looking for a place to procure these products or improvising with other materials.

Lack of access to menstrual hygiene products in places of work hinders women’s contributions to the workplace. When women have their periods in the office, they have to hunt for products that should have been accessible. This reduces their productivity, lowers concentration and increases absenteeism from the workplace.

Women contribute to the workforce and it’s high time the workforce contributed to the health, wellbeing and productivity of women. For many women across the country, getting an unexpected period at work could easily become having a ‘bad day’ and it simply translates to spending productive hours searching for pads in blood-soaked panties, struggling to launder underwear in the office bathroom, waiting for it to dry and trying to mentally get back in the right headspace. How many more ‘bad days’ can we afford?

If offices can afford other sanitary products like hand wash and toilet rolls, they can afford the one thing women are likely to need and that is sanitary pads.

With this petition, we want to make a difference for the average working woman. We believe that providing menstrual products like pads and tampons for women in the workplace is a simple yet powerful way to promote menstrual hygiene. But beyond this, everyone benefits when women equally contribute to the workforce.

Sign our petition calling all offices in Nigeria to provide free menstrual hygiene products like pads and tampons in their toilets.

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