At the beginning of the month, my friend Maria Kelly told me she was working on a project. After learning that there are women and girls in our community who cannot afford necessary hygiene items, she had to do something about it. "I never knew. I never thought about it. I never even imagined a woman not having what she needs for some reason."

Sadly, it is a fact that there are girls who have to go without pads or tampons until they get to their school resource center. There are women pinching pennies on a fixed income who have to figure out a makeshift option unless they sacrifice another necessity to afford to buy them from the store. Like Maria explained this morning on the air, this is unacceptable.

There have been studies done on "Period Poverty" that affects millions of women acros

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