Female Empowerment

Female empowerment

All over the world, women are disproportionately affected by gender inequality. As a global organisation and especially as a provider of period care products, we are passionate about empowering girls and women to help close this gap. We also know that when girls are empowered, their family and community benefit.

Fighting stigma & period poverty with partners

In addition to offering our free, syllabus compliant What's Happening to U? Education program around puberty and menstruation, we work with some important organisations to fight period poverty and reduce stigma across Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific.

Since 2020 we have supported tens of thousands of people with essential period care products and educated over 500,000 young people. We work with our major strategic partners Share the Dignity and The Period place to advocate and educate around periods, as well as provide products to people in need.

In 2020 we were also proud to work with the New Zealand Government on its Waikato Trial – a program providing free period products in 15 different schools in the Waikato region. We’re continuing to work with the New Zealand Government as well as state and territory governments across Australia to support the same reforms.

Learn more about our work in our Sustainability Stories, or through the articles below.