Sanitary protection when money is tight

ninathenana

A dilema indeed as you say this help shouldn't be just for food bank users. However, that would be a start. Would it be feasable to bag up feminine hygiene products along with deodrants etc. and let those with vouchers help themselves to a nondiscript bag to add to their food box.
Maybe pharmacies could be a collection point for those not using food banks. Who would issue the vouchers though ?
A very worthy cause, good luck with finding a solution.

What a good idea. Sanitary products are an esseential necessity not a luxury.

Maybe companies like Boots and Superdrug coukd get involved. Or Tena Lady could donate some of their priducts to food banks

Also consider older women with leajt bladders and Irritable Bladder Syndrome who need pads

Cheaper pads can be purchaed from Home Bargains, ALDI and Sainsbury.
in packs of 8

A group I belong to had a talk from someone who volunteered at a local food bank. They do provide sanitary products and nappies. Anyone who wants to use the food bank has to be referred by a doctor, vicar, or social worker or some other professional. My local Boots has a box for people to donate products.

A simple pickup point system helped in my area. We kept boxes of pads in a quiet corner of the community centre and people could grab what they needed without talking to anyone. It removed the embarrassment problem and it worked even when resources were tight. Schools later agreed to keep small baskets in the toilets which made a big difference for the girls who kept missing class.

this ancient op was picked up by a poster deleted by gransnet. It's a shame they don't then delete the op as it's from

2017. so eight years old

When our fourth daughter was born a neighbour said, ‘Imagine what they will cost you in Tampax one day!’
We were very hard up when they were teenagers but I don’t remember sanitary products being a problem, perhaps they were much cheaper then.