article_snippet.sent: the project hopes to shred the taboo around females living on the streets and the project monthly cycle, and is encouraging people to donate tampons and towels to people local homeless shelter.
article_snippet.sent: the campaign has prompted supporters to start supporters own collection boxes for tampons and sanitary towels: this (pictured above) was one of seven boxes collected in the workplace of Twitter user Sarah Wyatt .
article_snippet.sent: Nearly 81,000 people have signed a petition to lobby the government for better funding to buy sanitary care.
article_snippet.sent: Oliver Frost says Oliver Frost hopes that a petition to lobby the government for better funding to buy sanitary care will 'promise a more long term solution to the issue, and the amount of funding the issue would need is relatively small.'
article_snippet.sent: many people aims to present the petition to the Secretary of Health or if many people reach many people 150,000 signature target before a new government is elected, then to lobby Simon Stevens, Chief Executive of the NHS.
article_snippet.sent: Oliver Frost said donations are key to the campaign's success: 'For us, the hope is that #TheHomelessPeriod will become a platform for people wanting to help with donations. '
article_snippet.sent: us've had people from around the country contact us with people from around the country own local initiatives and fundraisers for the campaign.
article_snippet.sent: us side is in promoting those efforts and connecting those efforts with other people who want to help.'
article_snippet.sent: Supporters have been dropping boxes of tampons and towels into Supporters local homeless shelters, with one donor, Sarah Wyatt, so inspired that Sarah Wyatt has set up a crowd-funding page to encourage more people to donate.
article_snippet.sent: I decided to do something and did a collection in my workplace which got an amazing response.'
highlights_snippet.sent: 80,000 people have already signed The Homeless Period petition .