Cai Mingxuan (left), chairman of the Nantou County Party Committee of the Democratic Progressive Party, sent sanitary supplies to the school.

(Provided by the DPP Nantou County Party Headquarters)

[Reporter Xie Jieyu/Nantou Report] To welcome Mother’s Day, Cai Mingxuan, chairman of the Nantou County Party Committee of the Democratic Progressive Party and a county councilor, launched a special activity to send sanitary products to the county’s elementary and junior high school health care centers, for the "menstrual poverty" female students Warmth and courage, and then defy adversity and overcome adversity.

Girls in Taiwan start menstruating between the ages of 10 and 16. Teenage girls are easily overwhelmed by sudden menstrual periods. In recent years, the UK has provided free sanitary products in schools. face physiological phenomena.

But at present, there are only 6 counties and cities in Taiwan, including Taipei, Tainan, Kaohsiung, New Taipei, Hsinchu, and Taichung. Free sanitary napkins are placed in some schools, and the popularity is not enough. Especially, for female students from disadvantaged families, the monthly expenditure on sanitary products It is also a big burden, and you may even be unable to bear it, which is why the outside world describes it as "menstrual poverty".

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Cai Mingxuan pointed out that although the Educational and Cultural Committee of the Legislative Yuan has passed a provisional proposal, requiring the Ministry of Education to start a discussion, no later than in the 112th school year, schools at all levels will be provided with free and diverse sanitary products for female students. As a father, I can better understand the hardships of life at the grassroots level, so I took this activity to help girls use sanitary products without pressure as soon as possible, and have a healthier and correct understanding of menstruation.

In addition, the proportion of single-parent families in today's society is increasing, and sometimes fathers also have to be parents, but they may not be able to properly take care of the changes in the daughter's developmental period, so he specially chose to do this meaningful event in the warm May of Mother's Day We hope to achieve the effect of throwing bricks and attracting jade, so that disadvantaged families and ethnic groups like "menstrual poverty" can also feel the care given by everyone.

Cai Mingxuan (right), chairman of the Nantou County Party Committee of the Democratic Progressive Party, sent sanitary supplies to the school.

(Provided by the DPP Nantou County Party Headquarters)