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Siv Ngesi on menstruation dignity, education, & access · The Flash Drive with Carl Wastie

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  Speaker 1: Week Day's sweet A seven pm A flash drive with
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  Speaker 1: Carl Westy on KFM ninety four point five.
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  Speaker 2: It's a flash drive KFM ninety four point five. My
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  Speaker 2: name is Carl Wastey and as you may know, there
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  Speaker 2: is a huge, incredibly important cause in South Africa that
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  Speaker 2: has happened, and it's happened with not a lot of
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  Speaker 2: spotlight until a friend of mine walks in and makes
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  Speaker 2: the biggest fuss possible about it, and then suddenly people
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  Speaker 2: start lifting their heads. It's very sad that it took that,
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  Speaker 2: but he's gone through every single stride to make it happen.
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  Speaker 2: And period poverty in South Africa, it's ridiculous that that
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  Speaker 2: has to be a thing that we had to live through,
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  Speaker 2: that that we go to places where condoms are free,
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  Speaker 2: and yet we go to a lady's bathroom and there's
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  Speaker 2: nothing there that can actually have the same sort of connection.
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  Speaker 2: And that is why I love the fact that this
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  Speaker 2: Menstruation Foundation was co founded by a friend of mine
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  Speaker 2: who's coming in with a new I'm going to call
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  Speaker 2: it a tactic. I'm going to call it a marketing stunt,
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  Speaker 2: call it, but I just think it's pure genius to
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  Speaker 2: put a spotlight on this very very important cause.
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  Speaker 3: Seven guessing brother man, how are you doing? Cole Waste.
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  Speaker 2: I am so good and so proud of you for
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  Speaker 2: what is one of the most innovative ways of bringing
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  Speaker 2: attention to such an important topic.
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  Speaker 3: You know you called me a friend earlier, which I
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  Speaker 3: took a bit of offense because I'm your brother.
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  Speaker 2: But it's your slide, yes, my brother, of course, that's right.
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  Speaker 3: You know it's me. My name is a gassy and
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  Speaker 3: I am a man. If you can not here and
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people ask me why I am involved
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  Speaker 3: in fighting period poverty, and I think period poverty isn't
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  Speaker 3: a woman's issue. It's a humanity issue. Yes, and for
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  Speaker 3: us a young women are missing four to five schools
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  Speaker 3: days a month, times up by twelve, times up by five.
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  Speaker 3: It's an injustice. Young ladies are missing so much time
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  Speaker 3: from school. And for me, my mission is to end
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  Speaker 3: period poverty. That will be my legacy. People see me
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  Speaker 3: on television and I think for me, that's a side
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  Speaker 3: thing and a side hustle. For me, I'll be known
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  Speaker 3: as the man who helped end period poverty. Give me
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  Speaker 3: the next five years max our end period poverty. So
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  Speaker 3: we're downe with Joe Public, which is incredible. People Joe
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  Speaker 3: Public well actually have on South Africa papers throughout the country.
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  Speaker 3: Today we're having a huge blood stain on papers on
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  Speaker 3: different pages throughout the country, which shows you many young
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  Speaker 3: women are actually using paper as period products, which an
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  Speaker 3: absolutely disgusting thing that has to happen. So grab the Star,
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  Speaker 3: the August, all different papers and you can see a
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  Speaker 3: blood stain in the middle of your paper.
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  Speaker 2: When you came to this, Joe Public and you came
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  Speaker 2: with this concept, I'm sure they pitched this to you
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  Speaker 2: and they said, hey, we need to make sure that
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  Speaker 2: period poverty makes headlines and not anything else. Was that
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  Speaker 2: the concept that you wanted behind that.
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  Speaker 3: The tagline is a newspaper can absorb the blood but
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  Speaker 3: not the shame. We built a factory my business partner
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  Speaker 3: Morris and I and we now actually I just came
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  Speaker 3: from the factory. I wanted to cry. We are producing
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  Speaker 3: sundry pads. We do between four fifty and six hundred
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  Speaker 3: and fifty hundred pads per minute. Yeah, and we're producing
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  Speaker 3: us about seven hundred and twelve thousand hundred pads twelve
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  Speaker 3: hour shift.
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  Speaker 2: It's incredible. I actually chatted to your partner about that
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  Speaker 2: and as well as some of the stakeholders, and they
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  Speaker 2: were telling me about how you also employing people to
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  Speaker 2: do this, which is also valuable in South Africa, another
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  Speaker 2: bit of you know, poverty to focus on. So there's
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  Speaker 2: a couple of birds with one stone being knocked off
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  Speaker 2: there and I think it's it's such a beautiful thing
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  Speaker 2: and I hope that more people support you.
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  Speaker 3: I get a lot of credit for the kind of
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  Speaker 3: stuff that I do, but I literally am just a
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  Speaker 3: drop in the ocean to the ladies. And the men
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  Speaker 3: who are packing sentrypads right now work until four a m.
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  Speaker 3: In the morning. You guys are absolutely amazing.
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  Speaker 2: In this campaign. When we get this newspaper, what do
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  Speaker 2: you want us to do to help along the cause.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not asking you to buy sentrypads from my factory.
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  Speaker 3: That's not what I'm asking for, yes, and I'm not
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  Speaker 3: pushing pads onto women for me. If you want to
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  Speaker 3: get involved as much as possible, go buy the paper
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  Speaker 3: and the back page you'll see a QR code. If
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  Speaker 3: you give me sixty rand a year car yes we
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  Speaker 3: could Interpei poverty.
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  Speaker 2: Pick up the newspaper more important, go to menstruation dot
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  Speaker 2: found get some more information, help out where you can.
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  Speaker 2: I believe that if you have excess, if you have
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  Speaker 2: something that is a bit beyond what you need, it's
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  Speaker 2: your responsibility to share.
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  Speaker 3: Hellolajah man, this is.
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  Speaker 2: So powerful and well done to you, your team, Joe Public,
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  Speaker 2: and let's make sure that this message gets out there
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  Speaker 2: and we end this together because you have all of
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  Speaker 2: our hands holding yours to make sure that this happens. Furthermore,
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  Speaker 2: this is a complete sidebar, but congratulations for your zuni
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  Speaker 2: wag you. I'm sorry. I know you. I know you
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  Speaker 2: didn't want this forum to be about that. But on
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  Speaker 2: the side, just I think these blessings come into your
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  Speaker 2: life because you are so generous with your platforms and
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  Speaker 2: that's why things and accolades like that meet you there.
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  Speaker 2: So I just want to say that.
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  Speaker 3: No, thanks so much, man. It's been absolutely incredible and
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  Speaker 3: definitely blessed and incredibly rich when it comes to friends
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  Speaker 3: and connections and family.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you so much. Sevin Gasey for all that
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  Speaker 2: you do.
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  Speaker 3: Follow Instagram, five minu, Instagram if you want to do anything,
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  Speaker 3: Instration Foundation, Marius, You're incredible. Car wasty. You're the best
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  Speaker 3: in the business. I've known you for thirty odd years.
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  Speaker 3: No one's better than you, my friend. Oh man, the
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  Speaker 3: awards keep on coming. And I'm obsessed with your son
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  Speaker 3: on Instagram. I love you dog. He's so cool. He's like,
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  Speaker 3: he's so your son is so cool.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And can I tell you he looks up to
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  Speaker 2: you a lot, especially with regard to to what you're
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  Speaker 2: doing and the money education he has with regard to
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  Speaker 2: to sanitary products, period products, et cetera. Because I made
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  Speaker 2: it the responsibility as his father to ensure that he
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  Speaker 2: knows exactly what's up. And he is.
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  Speaker 3: No, he's the coolest. He's the coolest. I love him.
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  Speaker 3: Great job, brother said, thanks so much for having me.
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  Speaker 1: Weekday's feet of seven PM A flash drive with Karl
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  Speaker 1: we see on KFM ninety four point five