By CRISTINA JANNEY
Hays Post
The Hays High School Student Council has joined forces with the Wonder Women League to provide female hygiene products for free to high school students.
HHS does not have sanitary napkin or tampon vending machines in its bathrooms. This means that female students have to borrow these items from friends or request them from the nurse's office if they are needed during the school day.
The student council requested $3,125 to buy the vending machines and initially stock them in the high school student bathrooms.
Members of the Wonder Women League met with student council members on Friday to present a check for the project.
The vending machines should be ordered next week and installed before the end of March.
The hygiene products will be available through the vending machines for free.
Hays Area Children's Center
The Wonder Women League also donated $500 to Hays Area Children's Center on Feb. 2.
These funds will be used for sanitation equipment as well as dishes, cups and serving utensils for the center's food service program.
The funds will help the nonprofit center maintain its mission of providing affordable child care to local families.