The Flow Bag Wants Women to Stop Putting Sand in Their Vaginas
Nearly half of the world bleeds once a month and nearly half of that number do not have access to adequate menstrual hygiene education or products like pads, tampons or cups. Many of these girls and women are reduced to using old newspapers, leaves, rags and sand to inefficiently hold their period blood back. In this suffering, they also endure terrible stigma being deemed untouchable or quarantined for the duration of their menses. This causes girls to miss school or drop out all together, entering them into child marriage, and perpetuates the cycle of gender inequality.