Give the Gift of Period Freedom

In Tanzania, 80% of girls and women don’t have the resources to manage their periods hygienically. Because they can’t afford sanitary products they improvise with rags, old clothes, and dry leaves. Insufficient sanitary products also means girls are often absent from school 4-7 days a month, significantly impacting their academic performance.

When you give the Gift of Period Freedom, Just Peoples project leader Lucy will produce and distrubute 5-packs of reusable sanitary pads to girls in rural Tanzania who would not otherwise have access to hygenic sanitary products. Each set of pads has been designed to be washable and last each young woman for three years.

See a preview of this eGift here.

Meet Lucy, the doctor who’ll deliver your eGift

Lucy is a doctor who previously spent 7 years working with charities in her home country of Tanzania on sexual and reproductive rights. Through her work she understood the magnitude of the problems that girls face every month and the health problems that arise from not being able to care for themselves properly.

Through Lucy’s work she saw how much girls living in poverty were suffering through shame, humiliation and disease because of lack of knowledge and sanitary products and the taboo surrounding menstruation. And she decided to change the situation.. Learn more.