"This has made me feel empowered and made me realise that I can make a greater change in my community."

During the HIIC course I have also been working on a group project which is about woman's health, and period poverty in particular While doing the research I found out that one of the high schools in my community were participating in a period poverty scheme called "Hey Girls". In my school I wasn't aware of any schemes for period poverty going on but, during the group project l carried out a conversation with my head teacher and I asked, then encouraged the school through the head teacher, to put the pads out in the bathrooms instead of hiding them in the teacher's bases. Then the following day I went into school and noticed the pads in the school toilets. This has made me feel empowered and made me realise that I can make a greater change in my community.