SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 21 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Cabildo de Tenerife, through the area of Social Action, Citizen Participation and Diversity, will allocate an item of 200,000 euros to the delivery of menstrual hygiene products among women with limited resources on the island, as reported by the Island Corporation.
This is the economic contribution enabled this year within the line of subsidies of 1.7 million euros that is allocated to the entities attached to the Tenerife Isla Solidaria program, dependent on Sinpromi, which distribute essential products among individuals and families in a vulnerable situation on the island.
The CEO of Citizen Participation and Diversity, Nauzet Gugliotta, clarified that through the Social Action area, together with the administrative service for Equality and Prevention of Gender Violence, a survey has been carried out among the distribution entities to find out firsthand hand the main needs of the individuals and families who assist on the Island and all those consulted have requested to have these basic intimate hygiene products for delivery to the women they care for.
Gugliotta highlighted “the commitment of the Cabildo to minimize the effects of menstrual poverty experienced by many women, having economic difficulties to periodically access the necessary products for their intimate hygiene, as a factor that increases health risks and promotes gender inequality “.
The CEO assured that the consultation carried out “highlights the need to have these basic items and also makes visible the vulnerability or inequality to which they may be subjected, in an essential area of their nature and so decisive for their health and quality of life”.
The data analyzed by the Island Council have been collected from 29 entities of the third sector, distributed both in the metropolitan area and in the north and south of Tenerife.
The result of this report shows the high interest in distributing intimate personal hygiene products by delivery entities registered in the Tenerife Isla Solidaria program. Among them, only 52% (15 entities) distribute this type of product, while the remaining 48% (14 entities) do not distribute menstrual hygiene items.
Among the most outstanding data, it is concluded that all the consulted entities wish to have these products, in order to respond to the needs of the women served within these resources. In this sense and during the first semester of 2022, these social entities attended to the basic needs of 9,000 women, aged between 10 and 60 years.
