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One Less Thing You Have to Worry About, Period
增添生活的便利：月经站
Science & Health Club x Ivy Zhou, Maggie Dai 戴佳祺
The Tsinglan Science & Health Club and Student Council member Ivy Zhou collaboratively created Tsinglan's first-period station that provides period pads and tampons for all faculties and high school students. The purpose of this project is to help girls with their urgent need for female hygiene products and to promote the idea of rejecting menstrual shame.
清澜山学校科学与健康社与学生会成员周若冰共同创建了清澜山学校的第一个月经产品补给站，为学校内的有需求的人提供经期护垫和卫生棉条，旨在帮助女孩解决需要月经产品时的燃眉之急，并推广拒绝月经羞耻的理念。
I came up with the inspiration for the period station from an awkward experience.
我从一次尴尬的经历中得到了月经站的灵感。
It was a normal school day when I found out that my period suddenly came, I woefully looked for someone around to borrow a menstrual pad. After asking around in vain for menstrual pads, I had to go to the nurse's clinic on the first floor to get a period pad. When I finally got the period pad and went back to the fourth floor, I was already late for my class.
那是一个普通的上学日，我发现我突然来月经了，我狼狈地在周围找人借月经垫。在四处询问无果后，我只得到一楼的医务室去拿卫生巾。当我终于拿到卫生巾并回到四楼时，我上课已经迟到了。
At that time, I thought, it will be great if I would not have to go that far to get period pads.当时我就想，如果我不用跑那么远去拿卫生巾就好了.
Proposing this idea in the StuCo group chat, writing the proposal, cooperating with the Science & Health Club, making the budget, purchasing period pads, preparing for the presentation, delivering the presentation...
When the audience was creating rounds of applause, I felt a sense of achievement arising from deep down in my heart.
带着这个想法，我们在学生会群聊中提出倡议，与科学与健康社团合作，做预算，购买卫生中，准备演讲，发表演讲⋯.这个想法最终得到落实，就此改善了许多女同学的生活。
Period has long been a taboo in many cultures and countries: women during their period are considered as "dirty" in some cultures; over 5000 different slang terms and euphemisms were used for the word "period" throughout the world; stores usually provide black plastic bags to hold period pads... The period station not only provides convenience to all female faculties and students on campus but also promote girls to face up to their physiological needs and face up to the taboo of period.
长期以来，月经在许多文化和国家都是一种禁忌：月经期间的妇女在某些文化中被认为“肮脏的”；全世界有超过五千多种不同的俚语和委婉语用于“月经”一词；商店通常提供黑色塑料袋来装月经垫⋯月经站不仅为校园内的所有女性师生提供便利，同时也鼓励着女性们正视生理需求，正视月经禁忌。
Thank you so much to bring changes to our community. I am so proud that you are a member of the Tsinglan Family." This is a sentence from the email that a teacher wrote to me after the presentation on the period station. People who advocate for changes are important for the well-being of a community, but without the support from the Science and Health club for making posters of scientific knowledge regarding periods, purchasing the period pads, tirelessly having discussions of details, and most importantly - the support from school leaders, this project wouldn't have come true.
“非常感谢你为我们的社区带来变化。我很自豪你是清澜大家庭的一员"。
这是一位老师在月经站的演讲后写给我的电子邮件中的一句话。倡导变革的人对社区的福祉非常重要，但如果没有科学和健康俱乐部的支持以制作有关月经的科学知识海报，帮助购买月经垫，不厌其烦地与我讨论项目细节，以及最重要的—-学校领导的支持，这个项目就不会实现。
--Ivy Zhou
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