Ending period poverty wins her laurels
The Hindu
Amika George is the youngest of 1,129 persons named in this year's Queen's Birthday Honour List for her campaign to ensure free menstrual products for students
On Saturday, 21-year-old Amika George was honoured as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to education. As her extended family spread across Kumplampoika, Kozencherry and Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala, celebrated the news, she told The Hindu that the honour is a brilliant indication that young people are being taken seriously as players with real power to enact change when they see injustices. Ms George, who crusades for free hygiene products for girls living in poverty with no access to menstrual products, is from Edgware in North-West London, and is currently pursuing the study of Indian colonial history at Cambridge University.More Related News

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