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South Africa period poverty: 'I don't want anyone else to use rags for sanitary pads'

2023-05-28 08:23
South African Tamara Magwashu grew up unable to afford pads or tampons - now she is changing that for others.
South Africa period poverty: 'I don't want anyone else to use rags for sanitary pads'

Tamara Magwashu was bullied at school as her family was not rich enough to afford sanitary pads.

Now 27, she grew up in a poor township in South Africa's Eastern Cape province and watched her single mother use old rags during menstruation.

Tamara would take at least a week off school while...