Sewing to fight period poverty ⏲️ 6 Minute English
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- Опубліковано 6 бер 2024
- Period poverty affects over 500 million people worldwide. To help fight this, the Pachamama project has recruited volunteers who sew reusable period products for refugees. Georgie and Beth discuss this and teach you some useful vocabulary.👇👇👇
❓❓❓ Periods affect girls and women of reproductive age: that’s roughly half the female population, or 26% of the global population. But how many people is that? Is it:
a) 2.1 billion people?
b) 2.3 billion people?
c) 2.5 billion people?
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Vocabulary:
✔️sew - join pieces of material by repeatedly passing thread through them with a needle, either by hand or using a sewing machine
✔️to this day - up to and including the present moment
✔️absorbent - able to soak up liquid through the surface and hold it
✔️disposable - designed to be thrown away after it has been used
✔️barely - by the smallest amount; only just; scarcely
✔️chat away - pass the time by talking with someone
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I listen the podcast because I need to improve my listening.I would like seeing the text, bu there isn't .
A very important topic and I'm so grateful to you wonderful people for this video/audio. The lady that sews the pads is an absolute sweetheart❤ Unfortunately, many cultures have taught people that menstruation is dirty. I guess it's usually the very same cultures teaching that women are inferior. Very sad... When we were children, we were very poor and had to use old towelling nappies, tearing them into smaller "strips" to use as pads. We would of course wash them and reuse them, but women who don't have access to water and sanitising liquids or detergents won't be able to do this. It's easy to see how many poor women will feel extremely depressed and anxious when it's time for their period😢
VOCABULARY FROM VIDEO “Sewing to fight period poverty ⏲ 6 Minute English”
1. Reproductive: relating to or involved in the production of babies, young animals, or new plants
2. Sanitary: always used before a noun :of or relating to good health or protection from dirt, infection, disease, etc.
3. Consequences: [count] :something that happens as a result of a particular action or set of conditions
4. Infections: [noncount] :the act or process of infecting someone or something :the state of being infected
5. sew : join pieces of material by repeatedly passing thread through them with a needle, either by hand or using a sewing machine
6. to this day : up to and including the present moment
7. absorbent : able to soak up liquid through the surface and hold it
8. disposable : designed to be thrown away after it has been used
9. barely : by the smallest amount; only just; scarcely
10. chat away : pass the time by talking with someone
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4:02 There is no conflict in Turkey. Yes, we have many refugees who have come from Syria to our country but there is no war in our soil. Ty
Bro i'd prefer u talk about the sufferings of women in gaza and the racism syrian women face in turkey ovwr talkin about a pointless issue like that one u addressed ty
Thanks a lot for improving our English skills👍
Thank you for learning English with us 😊
This lesson is not only good for learning things about women's periods, it also give us facts about women who can't afford buying sanitary towels. I'm old enough to say that in my adolescence some of us used the ones you could use and washed and use again. But now it's
absolutely necessary that women refugees, poor women have access to the disposable ones. I don't think that would be so much money, more of these kind of things and less arms in the world, sorry if I sound extreme but women are half of the society in the world, and those women should be help.
When I first immigrated to Canada, I had a strong sense of cultural shock even though I was able to speak English.😊
I’d like you to watch the movie, “Padman”.
Actually, sanitary pads were made by a man in India. I didn’t know this fact before I watch this movie.
At that time, it was a taboo to talk about menstruation with men in India.
However, the man didn’t give up to invent sanitary pads for his wife.
It is a heart warming story. I recommend it.
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About this topic, we won't forget women in Palestine
And the Isreali women who have been raped or killed or kept as hostages by Hamas terrorists
Despite the fact that it's absolutely usual to get products to absorb during the menstrual period, many women can't afford to buy them and I think that the initiative to help them is tremendously powerful and lovely.
I'm glad to learn huge problem and great person as well as learning English !
I love their accent😍😍😍😍
Thanks, when my girlfriend has her menstruation 🩸, she is angry with me 😭, the situation is every month 😅. I try to understand it. 😅.
Ty for helping me to improve my English
Chatting away with good friends can be quite therapeutic. 😊
Thanks a lot
Thanks.
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Well done ! 😊
The graphic, pronunciantion and the topic are at the cutting Edge!
Bravo !
Awesome🎉🎉🎉
I can understand the conversation between two woman.
But what Ella Lambert is saying is too fast for me to comprehand, especially at 2:27, for instance.
Is this speed typical for naitive speakers?
So usefull 🥰😍🤩 its the first time to hear such things🙂
Nice
This is terrible. Cloth napkins can be very unsanitary. And in areas where there is no proper sewage treatment, washing infectious waste can lead to it dripping straight into the water, leading to the spread of disease. If you really want to help these women, you should donate free disposable sanitary napkins.
May be it's a return to the natural products again regardless the economic state of people, I began to use towels for toilet instead of using toilet paper we used to consume🧻for economic reasons but I found this more efficient👍more comfortable😃environmentally friendly, in addition to saving money💰in the past there were not that disposable products & things were o.k, disposable stuff may save time, effort & more hygienic especially as regards menstrual towels but cotton towels are not allergic, saving money & so as the environment, each policy has its advantages & disadvantages.
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There are lots of people all around the world think that the menstruation is an unclean thing, but I think it's normal. Don't be embarrassed when talking about it.
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At 22. I put a period as soon as I saw it was about the sewing around the other period.
hello thank you for a video
Are subjects name start with a capital letter:
computer science, physics or Computer Science, Physics? etc.
Yes, subjects are always capitalized 😊
I would like seeing the text, but there isn't.
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I think, buttons aren't comfortable if the women use fabrics during menstruations
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Some people are unhealthy and bad habbits affect periods.
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Wow wow woow. What a big problem they solved. Silly
4:02 THİS İS NOT TRUE. THERE İS NO CONFLİCT İN TÜRKİYE.
NO SUBTITLE WHY???
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