Period poverty: South African campaigner gets 'life-changing' donation

A German girl organises a big contribution to a South African charity tackling period-poverty issues.

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Caity Cutter was moved to do something after being shocked to learn from a BBC article about Ms Magwashu that 30% of girls in South Africa did not attend school during their period.

Ms Magwashu has called Caity's efforts life-changing.

The story, published a year ago, was about how the now 28-year-old from South Africa's Eastern Cape province was helping girls unable to afford sanitary pads by distributing free ones to schools based in rural, impoverished areas.

Having grown up in a shanty town using rags as sanitary pads - and being bullied for doing so - Ms Magwashu was determined to stop other girls in her community from suffering the same fate.

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