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Free tampons and pads: in Val-de-Marne, the fight against menstrual poverty is progressing

2024-03-17T14:46:50.376Z

Highlights: Nearly 2 million women do not have the means to regularly obtain sanitary protection in France. The city of Kremlin-Bicêtre provides its residents with distributors of organic and natural periodic protection in 19 places open to the public. The deployment plan is being finalized, but it will be done by the end of the mandate (in 2026) » Subscribe Already subscribed? To log in, go to the page you came from and enter your details. For the latest from CNN, click here.


In recent years, more and more communities have installed free periodic protection dispensers in public spaces.


At college, university, community center or swimming pool, we now find distributors, not of treats but of free periodic protection.

“It can save your day,” breathes Linda (

the first name has been changed

), who came to carry out a procedure at the municipal social action center (CCAS) of Kremlin-Bicêtre (Val-de-Marne).

Although she herself has never used the protections provided, she finds the initiative “brilliant”.

“We've all been caught completely off guard once before.

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While currently nearly 2 million women do not have the means to regularly obtain sanitary protection in France, the city of Kremlin-Bicêtre provides its residents with distributors of organic and natural periodic protection in 19 places welcoming public.

“The objective is to have a distributor in all municipal places open to the public,” announced the mayor’s office.

The deployment plan is being finalized, but it will be done by the end of the mandate

(in 2026)

.

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