A group hopes to make period poverty a thing of the past at UF

Planned Parenthood Generation Action at UF has begun their campaign to supply bathrooms with a box of free menstrual products.

Each box is refilled with around 15 pads and 15 tampons and has an explanation of the products and a QR code for refills.

Generation Action President Amelia Packham said studies have shown around 20% of college students experience period poverty or can’t regularly afford menstrual products..

The boxes are in every bathroom on the first floor of 12 buildings on UF ’s campus.

Flyers with QR codes have been placed on other floors to direct people who need a product to the closest period pack.

The period packs can be found at the following UF buildings: Anderson Matherly Heavener , Little Hall Fine Arts , C Rinker Turlington and Pugh Hall .