Boots Shop Street announces partnership with The Hygiene Bank Ireland

Popular health and beauty retailer Boots on Shop Street has partnered up with The Hygiene Bank charity organisation for an initiative to tackle hygiene poverty. 

The pharmacy will provide a drop-off point for people to donate a range of essential hygiene products to those in need, such as deodorants, nappies, period products and shampoo.

The Hygiene Bank says 640,000 people are at risk of poverty in Ireland - and hygeine poverty is much closer to us than one might think.

Maeve McNamara, Corporate Social Responsibility Manager at Boots Ireland explains why a drop-off point was brought to Galway.