a few dollars more...

... bought sanitary pads and tampons.
'Because of homelessness, poverty or escaping violence women in crisis are forced to use newspapers, toilet paper or tissues as makeshift pads.'

Having been 'caught short' on a field trip in the wilds of the Namib Desert through my own poor planning , to be completely at the whims of a very different wild is hard to imagine.

Share the Dignity.