Feminine hygiene products are essential to maintain personal health and standard quality of life. Currently, our district lacks readily accessible tampon dispensers in our women's restrooms. This can contribute to discomfort, embarrassment, and unnecessary anxiety amongst the female student body, creating a difficult learning environment.

Experts have voiced the need for these essential products to be freely available in schools, citing how these institutions should support the health and well-being of all students. A 2013 study conducted by Free the Tampons Foundation showed that 86% of women have started their period unexpectedly in public without the supplies they needed, especially those with unpredictable periods. 

The school would get money in return for their purchase. We also request pad dispensers so every woman gets what they need. We deserve feminine products in the place we need them. They are no less of a necessity than toilet paper. We have concluded that women seldom aqcuire menstrual products from the front desk or counseling office due to the stigma surrounding female hygiene products. 

Let's urge our administrators to fund tampon dispensers as well as pad dispensers in the women's restrooms to support the overall health and well-being of our female students. Disregarding menstrual needs is not an option. Encourage them to help knock down one barrier in the path of academic success for every student. Sign this petition now or join our campaign to show your support for this important change toward improving our school environment. 

Contact simonejeanettepoulin@gmail.com for information about how to further support our campaign and to tell me if you know of another school that does not provide access to these essential products. We know it's going to take much more than a petition to solve this issue, and I cannot accomplish this alone. 

Contact your local representatives to make this a state-wide solution. We need action, not apathy.