Feminine Hygiene Community Boxes unveiled in downtown Louisville promote women’s health, wellness | News from WDRB [Video]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Boxes popping up on corners around downtown Louisville’s LouMed District are promoting women’s health.

Anyone can open the Feminine Hygiene Community Boxes and take whatever they may need. The goal is to help people who might not be able to afford some of those products.

They’re similar to the Little Free Libraries or pantries you see around town, but the boxes offer feminine products to those in need.

Two boxes were unveiled Monday by UofL medical students, one at the corner of South Preston Street and East Muhammad Ali Boulevard, and the other at East Chestnut and South Floyd streets on UofL’s Medical School campus.

According to Reuters, a survey of low-income women in a large U.S. city found nearly two-thirds of them couldn’t afford hygiene products the previous year.

Instead, the women often used paper towels or toilet paper from public restrooms. The National Organization …