Sewing to fight period poverty ⏲️ 6 Minute English

Period poverty affects over 500 million people worldwide. To help fight this, the Pachamama project has recruited volunteers who sew reusable period products for refugees. Georgie and Beth discuss this and teach you some useful vocabulary.????????????

❓❓❓ Periods affect girls and women of reproductive age: that’s roughly half the female population, or 26% of the global population. But how many people is that? Is it:

a) 2.1 billion people?
b) 2.3 billion people?
c) 2.5 billion people?

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Vocabulary:
✔️sew - join pieces of material by repeatedly passing thread through them with a needle, either by hand or using a sewing machine
✔️to this day - up to and including the present moment
✔️absorbent - able to soak up liquid through the surface and hold it
✔️disposable - designed to be thrown away after it has been used
✔️barely - by the smallest amount; only just; scarcely
✔️chat away - pass the time by talking with someone

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