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E68:Cups, Confidence, and Change: Ending Period Poverty with the Menstrual Cup


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Imagine a world where half the population regularly misses school, work, or risks their health due to a completely solvable problem. That's the reality of period poverty a crisis affecting 500 million menstruators worldwide every month.

Christine Denning takes us on an eye-opening journey through her work tackling this global injustice. After discovering that period poverty wasn't just an issue in developing nations but also in places like London, New York, and everywhere in between, she pivoted her entire career to focus on a solution that's been hiding in plain sight for 88 years: the menstrual cup.

Want to be part of the solution? Visit couldyou.org to learn how you can help provide a 10-year solution to someone in need or purchase your own cup through their buy-one-give-one program atย 

https://couldyou.org/

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