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Discover the people and the projects trying to make the world a better place

Discover the people and the projects trying to make the world a better place.

Discover the people and the projects trying to make the world a better place.

A weekly programme looking at common challenges around the world and the creative ways people are trying to tackle them.

Presenter Myra Anubi speaks to reporters, experts and innovators to investigate how effective different solutions are, share their successes and inspire listeners with what is possible.

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People Fixing The World: Fighting period poverty

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Fighting period poverty

21/11/2023 GMT

BBC World Service - People Fixing The World, Fighting period poverty

How hand-stitched pads are trying to make women’s lives better

How hand-stitched pads and a stigma-busting comic book are trying to make women’s lives better.

Millions of women around the world lack access to safe and hygienic menstrual products. But there are people trying to change that. 
 
We meet the British student who learned to sew in lockdown and started making reusable sanitary pads for refugees. She’s helped distribute tens of thousands of pads and is now training refugee women in Lebanon how to make money by sewing the pads themselves.

We hear about a design project inspired by tea cups which has created an efficient way of washing reusable pads.
 
And in India we meet the woman who is challenging the stigma around periods with a comic book that’s being read in thousands of schools around the country.

Presenter: Myra Anubi
Reporter: Lorna Acquah 
Producer: Lizzy McNeill
Series producer: Tom Colls
Sound mix: Annie Gardiner
Editor: Richard Vadon

email: peoplefixingtheworld@bbc.co.uk

Image: Reya, a student in Beirut who is sewing period pads

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