Mental health, period poverty go hand-in-hand: Help a Girl Out

When Yanique Brandford was growing up in Jamaica, her family couldn’t afford menstrual products, so she would make her own pads out of cardboard.

The family moved to Canada when she was 14, and she figured that since she had arrived in the “land of opportunity,” this would change.

But since her family features a lot of women with heavy flow, they couldn’t afford the expensive period products they all needed. Brandford still went to school wearing her homemade, uncomfortable cardboard pads. Link to story here.