Remembering what it’s like to go through this phase herself, DeFrance began thinking of ways she could make it easier for her students, she told CNN.
“I want to provide them with what they need, whether that be a pencil or a tampon,” DeFrance said.
“A lot of these scholars go home and are the parent to their siblings, and maybe can’t go to the store that day,” she continued. “Or, they can’t afford the pad or tampon that would be best for them, or maybe they don’t have a good relationship with their parents.”
Her school provides only one type of pad, DeFrance said, so she began purchasing pads and tampons to give her students more options. She soon became the go-to teacher for all things menstruation.But her new initiative came at a cost: DeFrance says she found herself spending upwards of $100 a month on feminine products. In January, she decided to post her Amazon wish list, full of menstrual products, to her neighborhood’s Nextdoor page.
A few weeks later, boxes began pouring in,…
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