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Extra! Read all about it! 🩸There is blood in the newspapers🩸 ✨By now, I hope you've seen this daring and worthy stand from the three South African newspapers: The Star, The Mercury, and Cape Times and initiated by @menstruationfoundationza Readers of these three newspapers, could see blood stains, printed across the front page. I am here for it. I applaud the boldness behind it. ✨It is about time we take this matter into people's hands, their workplaces, and their daily conversations. In 2026, it is abhorrent to discover that millions of females around the world are still using newspapers, rags, and God knows what as substitutes, for period products. When period products are a basic human right. Having a period is a natural part of womanhood. Accessing and managing it safely and without shame should never be up for debate. Let alone a barrier to a girl's education, or her future. ✨There is no more room for "I had no idea." It is on us to take a stand. Whether you engage in the conversation, ask a female if she has what she needs, or simply acknowledge that her period matters. And, that her period does not make her less than. Every act counts. As the newspapers put it: "A newspaper can absorb the blood, but not the shame." ✨It takes having what looks like blood stains in newspapers, to bring attention, and awareness to period poverty. When we need to acknowledge this, on a daily basis. This is another blossoming mission for GNWL. To also bring awareness to the atrocity that period poverty involves. 🩸Period poverty can cause female students to miss, at least 5 days of school, per month. This is unacceptable! Join GNWL and our mission to always strive for improvement for the decrease and, hopefully, the eradication of period shame and period poverty. We need to alleviate the problems and issues, brought upon by two words: period poverty. What will YOU do? Let's do something about period shame/ poverty! ✨Support GNWL➡️https://www.girlnowwomanlater.org/donate/ #TogetherForAPeriodFriendlyWorld #PeriodPoverty #MenstrualHealth #GNWL Credit Image: The MENstruation Foundation x Joe Public x Independent Media, South Africa"