{"id":2493,"date":"2019-10-17T09:40:02","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T09:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.polha.co.uk\/?p=2493"},"modified":"2023-03-24T17:52:07","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T17:52:07","slug":"free-period-products-at-polha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/free-period-products-at-polha\/","title":{"rendered":"Free period products at PoLHA"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is period poverty?<\/h3>\n

Period poverty is a hidden poverty that affects an estimated one in four women in the UK, and young girls are struggling the most. Looking more closely, 10% of girls have been unable to afford period products such as tampons or pads, and 12% have had to improvise when on their period. This can mean girls are wearing unsuitable substitutes for tampons and pads, such as socks or tissue paper.<\/p>\n

Perhaps most concerning is that nearly half of girls in the UK (49%) have missed an entire day of school because of their period.<\/p>\n

For as long period stigma persists, the real facts and numbers will remain unclear. According to the research by Plan International UK,<\/a> 1 in 10 girls have been asked not to talk about their periods in front of their parents.<\/p>\n

What are we doing to help?<\/h3>\n

As of this week we’re stocking a variety of items in reception for anyone to help themselves should they feel the need. Passers by can pop in, discreetly pick up items for themselves or a family member, and not have to say a word to anybody – unless they want to of course!<\/p>\n

The tampons and pads will be available from the far left side of reception as you walk in the front door, beside the leaflet stand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Free tampons and pads are now available from our reception. ","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5968,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Harbour Homes","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5969,"href":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions\/5969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harbour.scot\/homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}