{"id":12337,"date":"2020-09-18T16:58:02","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T14:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/first-female-src-president-copy\/"},"modified":"2021-03-18T18:47:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T16:47:23","slug":"vanessa-madito-gives-back-during-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/vanessa-madito-gives-back-during-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I know what it&#8217;s like to have nothing&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"12337\" class=\"elementor elementor-12337\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7f8301c5 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"7f8301c5\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-41e0aeb7\" data-id=\"41e0aeb7\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-71622e40 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"71622e40\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Period poverty, which refers to a lack of access to sanitary protection, continues to be a debilitating concern &#8211; especially for a developing country such as South Africa.<\/p><p>However, Vanessa Madito, a first-year Heritage Studies student at SPU, managed to make a difference to reduce period poverty in her society during the national lockdown.<\/p><p>After seeing that many girls in her community could not afford to buy sanitary towels, Madito started a pad initiative by using a portion of her student allowance to buy sanitary pads for girls in Schweizer-Reneke who could not afford them.<\/p><p>Vanessa lost her mother at a very young age. She recalls \u201c I know what it\u2019s like to wake up in the morning with no food, go to school on an empty stomach plus you are on your cycle.\u201d Remembering this painful experience made it necessary that she helps those who may be going through the same.<\/p><p>\u201cI didn\u2019t want girls to use unhygienic cloths that can cause infection, so I decided to use part of my monthly allowance to help,\u201d says Madito. \u201cThe lack of menstrual hygiene products inflicts indignity upon disadvantaged young girls, as sanitary pads are expensive,\u201d concludes Madito.<\/p><p>Helping others makes her happy. 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