Georgia Joins Effort to Fund Menstrual Products in Schools
Around the world, advocates are working to ensure that girls and women are getting affordable access to feminine hygiene products in public schools and other institutions, such as homeless shelters and prisons.
A package of Kimberly-Clark Corp. U by Kotex brand pads is arranged for a photograph in Princeton, Illinois, on Oct. 16, 2018.
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Atlanta (AP) -- Every weekday at a middle school near Atlanta, a half-dozen or so students visit the school nurse to get sanitary pads.
Their reasons vary: Their mothers don't provide them; they don't have the money; they forgot to bring them; their friends need them.