The Alabama State Department of Education says it is still in the process of determining how best to distribute funds, but schools are expected to receive money and start purchasing supplies in October.signed in April by Gov. Kay Ivey to provide products to 5-12 graders in Title I schools - schools that serve low-income or educationally at-risk students and receive additional federal funding. In Alabama, about 45% of female students attend these schools and will be eligible for the program.
The Bennetts begin tenth grade this year at a private school in Montgomery, and won’t personally benefit from their advocacy, but still saw the effort as a way to address a need in their community. For them, period poverty is inextricably tied to poverty. Providing pads and tampons can help improve outcomes for girls in a variety of ways.
“So we’ve identified the schools. And now they are breaking that down a little further as to how many young ladies in grades five through 12 are in those schools. And then that will give us a number of how much per child to allocate. And so they will get the money, starting with the October disbursement,” said Mackey.
Hollis said she hopes the $200,000 is just a starting point that will increase in future school years.
This will fix none of these kids having fathers at home.
This won’t work because these products are expensive so they will be hoarded. They’ll never have enough.
Better worry about day-cares in school
What a wonderful initiative for these young women to undertake. The article started that even though they do not experience period poverty, they advocated for others.
They don't have the money for pads and tampons but sure do have pretty, newly done up hair! 🤔 From someone who lives the life daily, I promise you, a trip to the salon to get just a regular Ole simple hair cut is definitely out of the question let alone something like theirs!
Do they have iPhones? If so they shouldn’t qualify.
I tried to read that article. It was the worst written article i have seen in a long time, but it was pretty typical for alcom's writers. The article reads like Ms. Savannah Tryens-Fernandes was out of hygiene products the week they taught writing in school and had to miss.
They have the latest iPhones though