What a year this has been for everyone so we are so glad to see the end of it. However, we realise that the problems which the pandemic has created are not going to go away even if we manage to eradicate the virus at any time. We have seen a massive increase in the requests of help and support we have received over the last nine months and, as ever, we have responded accordingly.
This has meant that we have needed to apply for funding on an almost weekly basis as we are now spending at almost 10 times our normal rate. Fortunately, we have been successful in many of our funding applications so today we want to give out a massive shout out to all of our funders and donors, of which there have been many.
We will continue our work into the New Year and beyond until we feel that we are no longer needed. 2020 has seen a change in the attitude from No.10 in that they have bowed to pressure and are supplying all of our state schools with period products. However, we feel that they need to go a step further as the Scottish Parliament has agreed to do. This is to make period products freely available across the board so that we can be totally confident that all women and girls will be able to have a dignified period. Until then, we feel that we will still need to keep on campaigning for, and supporting, all of our women and girls.
At the beginning of December we reached out to our women and girls and have asked them to contribute to a book which we hope to be published next year. “All Things Periods” will, hopefully, be full of anecdotes, poems, feelings and emotions surrounding our periods and with a bit of luck, and a lot of contributions, we will get this published by the summer of 2021. If you would like to contribute, or know of someone who would make a great contributor, please e.mail us on periodpower2017@gmail.com
All the information is on our Facebook page so please check it out.
In the meantime, we hope that 2021 will give us all a light at the end of what has been a long dark tunnel of 2020.