MADISON COUNTY, Ky. — The cost of having a menstrual cycle often can't be covered by those living paycheck to paycheck. During school, young girls in middle and high school often struggle to get period products.

"Oh my goodness, I've started my cycle at school I don't have the products that I need so what do I do?" said Chanté Perryman.

Perryman said she's answering that question for young girls in Madison, Estill, and Garrard county schools. She's collecting what she calls period provisions — to give away for free.

Data shows that one in four young women live below the poverty line in the United States.

"If they're already living below that line, and their families are just trying to make it day by day, of getting food, paying their bills, getting medicine a lot of times the personal

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