Free pads and frank discussion: Bangkok schools tackle ‘period poverty’
Since founding her own brand of period pads and liners in 2020, Thai entrepreneur Varangtip Satchatippavarn has given away thousands of products to those in need, including to a low-income community hit by a fire in Bangkok and Myanmar refugees along Thailand’s northern border.
“Public help under these situations often comes in the form of food or clothing, but hardly anybody thinks about period pads,” she says.
Ms. Varangtip is part of a movement in Thailand aiming to address the lack of access to menstrual products and
