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British activist

Amika Sara GeorgeMBE (born 4 October 1999) is a British activist who campaigns against period poverty in the United Kingdom.

Life

Amika George, who has Indian heritage, is from Edgware in north-west London. She studied Indian colonial history and Britain's ties to the slave trade as part of her degree from Cambridge University.^[1] George was inspired to take action after reading an article describing how many poor British women missed school due to stigma around menstruation and/or being unable to afford sanitary products such as tampons.^[2] She has said, "We need to make it very clear that we want to see equal access to education for all young people."^[3] At the age of 17 she started a popular petition addressed to Westminster (which gained over 200,000 signatories), and while still in secondary school she founded the #FreePeriods organisation in April 2017.^[2][4][5][6] As