Period poverty is a problem in New Zealand: August 1 2018

Countdown is cutting down the cost of more than a dozen women’s sanitary items, in order to reduce period poverty.

In 2016, Countdown, the Salvation Army and Manurewa MP Louisa Wall launched an initiative via the Foodbank project to help stock the charity’s food banks with sanitary products. Since the launch of this campaign, more than $190,000 worth of tampons and pads have been donated.

To find out more about this initiative I spoke to Labour MP for Manurewa, Louisa Wall.

I also spoke to Corporate Affairs General Manager Kiri Hannifin, to know a little more about what Countdown has done to help reduce prices on sanitary items.