Giving Compass' Take:

• Canada recently made a huge breakthrough for period poverty in their country as British Columbia now provides and offers their schools free menstrual products. 

• One in three Canadian women under 25 has struggled to afford menstrual products. How can donors help support initiatives that help period poverty especially in schools?

• Learn about how the UK is trying to end global period poverty. 

A motion passed by a board of education in British Columbia to provide students with free menstrual products has made them the first district in Canada to do so, Vancouver Sun reported.

The New Westminster school board has voted to install coin-free dispensers in girls’ and gender-inclusive washrooms in all of their schools. The installation will cost about $10,000, with an annual stocking fee of roughly $7,000.

Vancouver activist Selina Tribe gave a presentation at the school board meeting with United Way representatives on Feb. 26.

Read the full article on school's providing free period products by Jackie Marchildon at Global Citizen