蜜桃传媒 has pledged its commitment to tackling period poverty by providing free sanitary products across its campuses.
Following today鈥檚 announcement that the government will fund free sanitary protection for primary and secondary institutions if they opt in, the University will be funding the initiative itself to ensure every student across both college and degree courses has access to free tampons and pads.
Alex Lofthouse, 蜜桃传媒鈥檚 Deputy Vice-Chancellor, said the initiative was designed to prevent students missing lessons and lectures because they didn鈥檛 have access to sanitary products at home and couldn鈥檛 afford to buy them.
鈥淗aving your period should absolutely not impact on your ability to be able to attend lessons and lectures, but, unfortunately, that is the case for many students across the UK, according to government figures,鈥� she said.
鈥淪anitary products are not luxuries and we have introduced this scheme to lead the way in tackling period poverty and ensure students do not have to skip college or university because of something that is a perfectly natural part of life.
鈥淲hy should young women have this additional worry when they are working hard to gain a qualification and forge a successful career?鈥�
To cater for the University鈥檚 diverse student population, free sanitary pads as well as tampons are available in toilet facilities across the campuses, Summer Row, McIntyre House and Richmond House, and at The Link support services building. The same will apply to Moss House when it opens this month.
Staff also have access to the free products.
Find out more about 蜜桃传媒鈥檚 health and wellbeing services.
