A period should end a sentence, not a girl’s education.
The Pad Project is a nonprofit organization founded by a group of high school students and their teacher dedicated to the fight for menstrual equity. Individuals around the world, especially in low-income communities, often face a lack of access to menstrual products. According to a 2017 study, 1 in 5 American girls have either left school early or missed it entirely because they didn’t have access to sanitary products (1). The combination of period poverty, stigmatization, and inadequate reproductive and sexual health education has major consequences for menstruators’ wellbeing.
In order to raise awareness about this issue, The Pad Project committed to raising the funds to send a pad machine, along with a year’s worth of raw materials, to a village in rural India. The process was documented in the film Period. End of Sentence., which won the 2019 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. The documentary shows how the installation of the pad machine provides access to affordable and hygienic menstrual products and creates a micro-economy for the women who operate it.
Thanks to your contributions, The Pad Project has placed six pad machines in different regions in India and implemented a washable pad program in Sierra Leone. We are working to install a semi-automated pad machine in Afghanistan and to launch washable pad programs in Ghana and Guatemala. The Pad Project is combating period poverty in the U.S. by hosting menstrual hygiene donation drives in the greater Los Angeles area and providing grassroots organizations across the country with microgrants to purchase bulk menstrual supplies.
Now we need your help to expand our reach! With your support in 2021, we hope to place machines in India, Kenya, Nepal, and Sri Lanka and to launch washable pad programs in Kenya, Sierra Leone, and Uganda. Please join The Pad Project in our mission to create and cultivate local and global partnerships to end period stigma and to empower women and all menstruators worldwide.
To learn more about our organization please visit our website.
With gratitude,
The Pad Project Team
- https://always.com/en-us/about-us/end-period-poverty; Always Confidence and Puberty Study, Nov. 2017; based on females 16-24 years old; 2016 U.S. census.
The Pad Project is a nonprofit organization founded by a group of high school students and their teacher dedicated to the fight for menstrual equity. Individuals around the world, especially in low-income communities, often face a lack of access to menstrual products. According to a 2017 study, 1 in 5 American girls have either left school early or missed it entirely because they didn’t have access to sanitary products (1). The combination of period poverty, stigmatization, and inadequate reproductive and sexual health education has major consequences for menstruators’ wellbeing.
In order to raise awareness about this issue, The Pad Project committed to raising the funds to send a pad machine, along with a year’s worth of raw materials, to a village in rural India. The process was documented in the film Period. End of Sentence., which won the 2019 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. The documentary shows how the installation of the pad machine provides access to affordable and hygienic menstrual products and creates a micro-economy for the women who operate it.
Thanks to your contributions, The Pad Project has placed six pad machines in different regions in India and implemented a washable pad program in Sierra Leone. We are working to install a semi-automated pad machine in Afghanistan and to launch washable pad programs in Ghana and Guatemala. The Pad Project is combating period poverty in the U.S. by hosting menstrual hygiene donation drives in the greater Los Angeles area and providing grassroots organizations across the country with microgrants to purchase bulk menstrual supplies.
Now we need your help to expand our reach! With your support in 2021, we hope to place machines in India, Kenya, Nepal, and Sri Lanka and to launch washable pad programs in Kenya, Sierra Leone, and Uganda. Please join The Pad Project in our mission to create and cultivate local and global partnerships to end period stigma and to empower women and all menstruators worldwide.
To learn more about our organization please visit our website.
With gratitude,
The Pad Project Team
- https://always.com/en-us/about-us/end-period-poverty; Always Confidence and Puberty Study, Nov. 2017; based on females 16-24 years old; 2016 U.S. census.
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The Pad Project is a nonprofit organization founded by a group of high school students and their teacher dedicated to the fight for menstrual equity. Individuals around the world, especially in low-income communities, often face a lack of access to menstrual products. According to a 2017 study, 1 in 5 American girls have either left school early or missed it entirely because they didn’t have access to sanitary products (1). The combination of period poverty, stigmatization, and inadequate reproductive and sexual health education has major consequences for menstruators’ wellbeing.
In order to raise awareness about this issue, The Pad Project committed to raising the funds to send a pad machine, along with a year’s worth of raw materials, to a village in rural India. The process was documented in the film Period. End of Sentence., which won the 2019 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. The documentary shows how the installation of the pad machine provides access to affordable and hygienic menstrual products and creates a micro-economy for the women who operate it.
Thanks to your contributions, The Pad Project has placed six pad machines in different regions in India and implemented a washable pad program in Sierra Leone. We are working to install a semi-automated pad machine in Afghanistan and to launch washable pad programs in Ghana and Guatemala. The Pad Project is combating period poverty in the U.S. by hosting menstrual hygiene donation drives in the greater Los Angeles area and providing grassroots organizations across the country with microgrants to purchase bulk menstrual supplies.
Now we need your help to expand our reach! With your support in 2021, we hope to place machines in India, Kenya, Nepal, and Sri Lanka and to launch washable pad programs in Kenya, Sierra Leone, and Uganda. Please join The Pad Project in our mission to create and cultivate local and global partnerships to end period stigma and to empower women and all menstruators worldwide.
To learn more about our organization please visit our website.
With gratitude,
The Pad Project Team
- https://always.com/en-us/about-us/end-period-poverty; Always Confidence and Puberty Study, Nov. 2017; based on females 16-24 years old; 2016 U.S. census.
Be the first person to donate to the cause!