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Hygiene poverty: What is it and who is here to help?
National World - LocalTV
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09/10/2024
Charity In Kind Direct is looking to break the stigma around hygiene poverty, as they believe everyone has the right to access essential hygiene products.
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I'm Mark Green, I'm CEO of InKindirect, which is an amazing UK charity founded by
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His Majesty the King.
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And what we do is we receive donated products from businesses and retailers and brands.
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We store, we sort, and then we distribute them out to around 6,500 UK charities across
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the UK.
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Hygiene poverty is actually a phrase we coined in 2017.
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We identified this sort of, actually at the time, hidden but growing crisis and what it
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describes is people, households who fundamentally can't afford the products they need, the basic
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personal hygiene products they need to keep clean.
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Things like deodorants and shower gels and shampoos, things many of us frankly take for
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granted.
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Just shy of 10 million UK adults living in hygiene poverty, that's a million more than
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a year ago.
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