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Evening Standard
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Julia Gavarrete and Victor Peña

In El Salvador, girls find power in talking about their periods

On her last day of high school in the foothills of El Salvador’s Chalatenango mountains, one of 17-year-old Xochitl’s male classmates asked her to reach for something from his rucksack.

As she was rummaging in the school bag, she noticed a sanitary pad inside.

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