Why a twelve-year-old decided to fight period poverty.

The inspirational efforts of South African-era poverty campaigner Tamara Magwashu moved a 12-year-old girl in Germany to such an extent that she was able to arrange a sizable charitable donation.
After reading with dismay in a BBC piece about Ms. Magwashu that thirty percent of South African girls skipped school during their menstruation, Caity Cutter felt compelled to take action.
Ms. Magwashu has referred to Caity’s endeavors as transformative.
The article, which was released a year ago, described how the now-28-year-old from the Eastern Cape province of South Africa was giving away free sanitary pads to schools located in underdeveloped, rural areas in order to assist girls who couldn’t afford them.
Because she had experienced bullying as a child for using rags as sanitary pads while growing up in a slum town, Ms. Magwashu was driven to prevent young girls in her neighborhood from going through the same thing.
She started her own company to support women both domestically and abroad.
“Deep down, I made a decision that no one should have to go through what I went through,” Ms. Magwashu said to the news.