A special interview on MTV about Fe-Male organization work on ground aiming to encounter the stigma around menstruation and fight period poverty in Lebanon, mainly through advocacy and distribution of hygiene and health kits for women in need in Beirut areas that were affected by the recent explosion in August 2020. Hayat Mirshad, Fe-Male’s co-director, highlighted in the report that projections indicate that more than half of the women living in Lebanon will face period poverty by December 2020, and that the already existing hyperinflation in the prices of sanitary products (a 500% increase) has limited 66% of adolescents girls living in Lebanon from buying sanitary pads, and the percentage is still in increase!
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