We are now well into 2021 and thankfully our vaccination programme is well underway which will, hopefully, start our slow return to normality.
However, we feel that this will not alleviate the financial and economic problems of the many of millions of our citizens who are still to be taken off the furlough scheme. We will continue with our work of supporting all of our charity partners until we feel that we are no longer needed and will continue with supplying the wide range of toiletries which we started to supply at the onset of the pandemic.
We have also worked with two further Fire Services, Derbyshire and West Midlands, in supporting them to become Period Dignity employers by supplying them with pads and tampons to be placed in all of their stations. This is now three Fire Services we have supported and will hopefully be working with even more in the future.
In our previous post we talked about our proposed book “All Things Periods” and we have now extended our cut-off date to 30th June for contributions, as the schools have been closed for many weeks this year. We have received some truly inspirational, honest and often brutal contributions from many women and girls and will hopefully be going to print sometime during the summer of this year.
If this pandemic has taught us anything at all it is that our lives can change in a moment and that we should never take anything, or anyone, for granted. Livelihoods and more importantly, lives, have been lost when they should not have been lost. Let’s hope that our world will be better prepared for any future disasters that can affect us without very little warning.
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