Red box project is a global charity that has bases in Salford. Their aim to end period poverty among school girls.
The project was founded in March 2017 to combat ‘period poverty’ – a lack of access to sanitary products due to financial constraints – which results in girls having to miss school.
The charity delivers red boxes all over the country these boxes are filled with tampons, pads, underwear and tights.
By doing this they hope to eliminate embarrassment for girls who would normally miss school when on their periods, due to being unable to afford sanitary products.
On Sunday 24th representatives of Red Box project took part in Jingle bee Jog; hosted by the running bee foundation, at Media City Salford to raise money and awareness of their project.
The jog includes the Salford community and creates an opportunity for Red Box to include the community in the issue, which cannot be ignored.
The charity acknowledges the scale of the problem with a national survey estimating over 137,000 girls missed school because their families couldn’t afford sanitary products. Freely available period supplies have the potential to make a huge difference to young people’s lives: improving attendance and enabling greater participation at school.
Red box project has been active in pushing a legal campaign launched in collaboration with Free Periods. That would force the government into providing free period products to schools across the country.
Following a two and a half year campaign the charity has been successful and the Government has at last taken action to tackle the issue of period poverty experienced by children in England.
The Department for Education has committed to funding the supply of free period products to all schools (primary and secondary) and colleges from early next year, distributed via the phs Group.
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