She turns to the school’s pantry once every month or two. Roughly two years ago, Ms. Ramjit came across items she had never seen at pantries before: pads and tampons. “I used to spend, like, a lot of money on just feminine products alone,” she said in an interview at her daughter’s school. This is a need — it’s not a want.”The menstrual products at the pantry came from Food Bank for New York City, one of 200 food banks affiliated with Feeding America, a beneficiary agency of the The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund. This year, the Food Bank received a grant from the Neediest Cases Fund endowment for its Woman to Woman initiative, which provides menstrual and personal care products to thousands of women, as well as to those who need incontinence items.

Source: New York Times December 17, 2019 16:41 UTC