Six Minute English from BBC Learning English.com

Hello, this is Six Minute English from BBC Learning English. I'm Georgie and I'm Beth.

Mestoration is an issue that's not often talked about

yet every month it affects billions of women around the world.

menstruation or periods are billions of women around the world.

Menstuation or periods are a natural process

that typically happen once a month

when women and girls bleed from their vagina

for a few days as part of the reproductive cycle. from their

vagina for a few days as part of the reproductive cycle.

When this happens, women need special products like sanitary pads or

tampons to manage the flow of blood and go about their day-to-day life.

Unfortunately, over 500 million people around the world

either don't have access to these products

or can't afford to buy them, and this is called period poverty.

Period poverty has serious consequences.

For example, girls on their periods not going to school

affects their education, and women who can't work during their

period have less income. What's more it can cause health problems because without

sanitary products it's easy to get infections.

In this program we'll be learning about one project fighting period poverty affecting thousands of women refugees.

And of course we'll be learning some useful new vocabulary as well.

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