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We found that a lot of women can't even afford basics such as period product. Now they use alternatives and these include clothes, rags, newspapers and even socks. A lot of these women that don't have access to period products on university campuses and this is where new flow comes in to then bridge that gap and in period poverty on university campuses. Hello everyone, My name is purely about. I recently did my masters in neuroscience at the University of Cape Town. I'm not only a scientist. I'm also an entrepreneur with a passion for Women's Health and women empowerment. Now that passion led me to found Muffler, a startup tackling period poverty on South African university campuses. New flows creating a pad locator app that students can then use to find pad hotspots. These pad hotspots are placed on campuses and at public libraries where they can then find free period boxes. Now we are the first to do so inside Africa and Africa for the free period boxes at the pad hotspots. Bubble as mini billboards. What this means is that companies can pay for AD space on the period boxes. They can then reach the corporate social responsibility goals. They have physical presence on campus, they build trust with the student community and they also stand out amongst an oversaturated marketing landscape. And then our next steps include to Sukiyaki's customer to pay for the ads on the period boxes to also launch our pad locator. App on Play Store And then lastly, we would like to do more pilot studies across a 26 public universities in South Africa and then later expand to Tivet colleges.