{"id":222,"date":"2023-10-25T09:37:36","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T17:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamaw11.ca\/?p=222"},"modified":"2023-10-25T09:37:38","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T17:07:38","slug":"period-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamaw11.ca\/?p=222","title":{"rendered":"Period Promise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here at District Lodge 250, we enrolled in the Period Promise Campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About Period Promise<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ve done\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/uwbc.ca\/program\/period-promise\/#research\">the research<\/a>. Half of everyone who menstruates in BC \u2013 women, girls, non-binary people, and trans folx \u2013 have struggled to buy products at some point in their life. More than a quarter have gone through a period without having menstrual products whatsoever. And not having the product you need when you need it can make staying connected to community difficult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>That means that single parents are choosing between buying tampons or food for their families, and trans and non-binary kids are scrambling in washrooms, putting together makeshift pads that don\u2019t suit their needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Too many families skip out on social events \u2013 like going to the library or the pool \u2013 because it\u2019s easier to stay home than risk bleeding in public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People are missing school or leaving work, and too many people face the additional challenges of homelessness, living with a disability, or just the stigma around having a period at all. It isn\u2019t easy to ask for help, or know where to find it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uwbc.ca\/program\/period-promise\/\">United Way of BC Period Promise<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here at District Lodge 250, we enrolled in the Period Promise Campaign. About Period Promise We\u2019ve done\u00a0the research. Half of everyone who menstruates in BC \u2013 women, girls, non-binary people, and trans folx \u2013 have struggled to buy products at some point in their life. More than a quarter have gone through a period without [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iam-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamaw11.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamaw11.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamaw11.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw11.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw11.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw11.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw11.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw11.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamaw11.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw11.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw11.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}