Ingolstadt students can now benefit from free menstrual products

Diana Unterhitzenberger and Julia Schwarzmeier launched the student initiative "Period." at the KU. The initiative fought for making free tampons, pads and panty liners available in some restrooms at the Eichstätt campus last year. Now, after an initial trial phase, the project has been extended to the Ingolstadt campus.

 

 

Auf den am häufigsten genutzen Toiletten finden sich am Campus Ingolstadt nun kostenlose Menstruationsartikel.
Auf den am häufigsten genutzen Toiletten finden sich am Campus Ingolstadt nun kostenlose Menstruationsartikel.

Ingolstadt students can now benefit from free menstrual products that are made available in wooden boxes with a red sticker in the women's restroom on the first floor of the Main Building, in the women's restroom and in the barrier-free restroom both on the first floor of the New Building. For Natalia Rogova and Eva Wack, the Women and Equal Opportunity Officers at the Ingolstadt School of Management, this is an important step: after all, menstrual products should not become luxury items that not all students may have money for, explains Rogova. "You just don't know if everyone can afford it."
That's why a free selection of period products is now available at the most-frequented restrooms. Students who are surprised by their period and don't have pads or tampons on hand can help themselves there. "This leaves us with one less thing to worry about," says Wack satisfied.