Twin sisters and The Montgomery Academy students Brooke and Breanna Bennett were instrumental in passing a law that provides free period products to low-income schools throughout the state. More: 22Alabamians
“Period poverty is a part of poverty and we also want to help end poverty and we feel like people don’t really focus on this aspect of it…I feel like with solving period poverty, we can have more of these menstruators in school and more of these menstruators getting their education and staying in their jobs to create stable lives for themselves and their family,” said Breanna.
Brooke and Breanna were named Period Heroes by Always and Walmart as a result of their advocacy. The two companies donated 12,000 pads to Women in Training, which the organization then distributed during a back to school giveaway in Montgomery in September.
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