Three Girl Scouts from San Lorenzo have been creating “Period Packs” to take the stigma and embarrassment out of the menstrual cycle.
Troop 33811 Girl Scouts Haylee Ijames, Mariah Main and Samantha O’Brien. Photo: San Leandro school districtThree Girl Scouts from San Lorenzo have been creating "Period Packs" to take the stigma and embarrassment out of the menstrual cycle.
"We wanted to find stuff in our community we wanted to change," said Samantha O’Brien, an eighth-grader from San Lorenzo who attends Anthony Ochoa Middle School in Hayward. "Something I really noticed, both at my elementary school and at my middle school, is that there’s a large stigma around having a period. So, I’m like, ‘Oh, we should do this for our award to inform our community that it’s not a gross thing, it’s a natural thing.
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