'I will ask my MP to sign the parliamentary Early Day Motion (EDM) supporting the campaign for access to sanitary products for women in Zimbabwe'

Pledge “dignityperiod”

"I will ask my MP to sign the parliamentary Early Day Motion (EDM) supporting the campaign for access to sanitary products for women in Zimbabwe but only if 100 other British people will do the same."

— Anji Capes (contact)

Deadline to sign up by: 31^st December 2007
36 people signed up, 64 more were needed

Country: United Kingdom

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Every day, millions of women and girls in Zimbabwe are suffering because they cannot afford basic sanitary protection.

A pack of sanitary towels costs more than 50% of the average monthly wage, making it unaffordable for most women who are already struggling financially.

Therefore, women are forced to use newspapers or rags to protect themselves during their periods, which leads to infections for which there is little available medication.

Moreover, these medical infections are often falsely attributed to sexually transmitted infections leading to social embarrassment as well as domestic violence.

This lack of sanitary products has far reaching implications. Families suffer from increased poverty as mothers and wives are unable to work when they have their periods. This me! ans that they are unable to buy food and clothes, or finance their children's education. In addition girls are forced to take time off school, further jeopardising their education and their futures.

ACTSA's Dignity! Period. campaign aims to provide Zimbabwean women in need with free sanitary protection to allow them to keep their dignity and reduce the suffering caused by this basic essential need.

Information on this campaign can be found at ACTSA's website, http://www.actsa.org/Pages/Page.php?pID=....

Please write to your MP asking him or her to sign the Early Day Motion (EDM) on this issue. You can contact your MP through the website Write To Them - http://www.writetothem.com - and information on the EDM can be found at http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetail...