Nisa-Nashim went along to the Free Periods protest held in London last night to add their voices to the call for the government to provide free sanitary products for girls receiving free school meals. The protest was organised by Pink Protest and Amika George, an 18 year old student who started a petition on this issue earlier in the year. Period poverty affects up to one in ten women and girls between the ages of 14 and 21 in the UK with some girls not attending school during their period because they cannot afford to buy sanitary products. Nisa-Nashim’s Leeds group have already been working with Freedom4Girls, a project founded by Tina Leslie to eradicate period poverty worldwide, and teamed up with them for Mitzvah Day in November to collect sanitary products to be distributed to schools in Leeds.