An alternative all-girls school in Sunnybank is the first school in Brisbane to provide Share the Dignity PinkBox, providing free pads and tampons for students.
Carinity Education Southside is taking steps to ensure their student body, many of whom are at or below the poverty line, are not facing disadvantage by being forced to take days off school when their period comes.
The school’s Deputy Principal Christine Harman said having a PinkBox at the school will mean the world to their girls, with Harman admitting when they purchase the sanitary products for the students, they often are too embarrassed to ask for the products. She said the discrete nature of the PinkBox means the students are able to attend school when on their period without fear or stress.