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Day: 16 November 2022

Breaking taboos around periods: female football teens receive new kits

by: Cassandra Tanti
16/11/2022

Monaco association SheCanHeCan continues its mission to raise awareness and break taboos around periods with the handing out of free First Periods Kits to the U14 and U15 teams of the ASM FF.

In March 2022, the Monaco Red Box Project developed by Monegasque association SheCanHeCan became Monarègles, a campaign which aims to break taboos around periods and to encourage the wider distribution of organic period protection to young girls in the Principality and, in particular, to young athletes.

The First Periods Kit includes a packet containing 18 period products from the English brand Freda, a FabLittleBag sachet, and a Guide to Your First Period, developed in French by SheCanHeCan.

After having distributed these kits within the Don Bosco College in Nice with the financial support of CFM Indosuez, SheCanHeCan offered its kits to young players in the U14 and U15 categories of the ASM FF on Friday 11th November, in the presence of Céline Cottalorda, the Interministerial Delegate for the Promotion and Protection of Women’s Rights.

Interministerial Delegate for the Promotion and Protection of Women’s Rights Céline Cottalorda and Vibeke Thomsen, Founder of SheCanHeCan. Photo credit: Marcello Fotography

The objective of this initiative is threefold: to provide organic period products to young girls, which is better for their health and for the environment; to inform them of the products available to sportswomen; and to encourage a discussion around menstruation so that young players know their bodies better and understand the impact on their performance.

SheCanHeCan is a Monegasque association created in 2011. Its main mission is to encourage all individuals to challenge stereotypes in order to achieve their full potential regardless of their gender. Monarègles aims to break taboos around periods and to encourage companies, institutions and schools to provide free protection to its teams.

 

 

Photo above credit: Marcello Fotography

 

Zero train service between Nice and Italy

by: Elsa Carpenter
16/11/2022

At the end of this month, not one single train will be running from Nice Ville station to Ventimiglia. So how else can you travel to and from the Principality of Monaco?

From 8pm on Friday 25th November to 9am on Sunday 27th November, train services will be entirely suspended between Nice’s central station and that of Ventimiglia, just over the Italian border.  

The interruption totale is due to important works on the Monaco tunnel as well as renovations to accessways at Beaulieu-sur-Mer.  

Season ticket holders to the SNCF TER/Zou can make use of two bus routes in the place of the train service, free of charge. The 607 Line – formerly the 100 Line – departs every 10 to 20 minutes from early morning to late at night, and connects Nice and the Principality of Monaco. The Noctamb’us N100 is a nightbus service between Nice and Menton that is exclusively run from Thursdays to Saturdays and the eve of bank holidays. Passengers without a TER/Zou subscription will have to pay for these bus routes. 

The 608 Line, which links up Monaco with Menton, is not part of the free proposition by the local SNCF branch. There is no free provision in place for getting passengers over the border into Italy, although the Zest 25 bus for Menton-Tende via Ventimiglia will be running.  

 

 

Photo source: Shang Di for Unsplash