not a girl’s
education.®
THE ISSUE
Menstruators around the world, especially in low income communities, often face a lack of access to menstrual products. Without proper sanitary supplies, they may resort to using newspapers, dirty rags, and even leaves to manage their periods.1 The combination of period poverty, stigmatization, and inadequate reproductive and sexual health education has major consequences for menstruators’ wellbeing. It can also prevent menstruators from staying in school, thereby ending their education.2
OUR MISSION
The Pad Project’s mission is to create and cultivate local and global partnerships to end period stigma and to empower women and all menstruators worldwide.
Around the world 2.3 billion people lack access to basic sanitation services.3
WHAT WE DO
The Pad Project takes a multi-pronged approach to achieving menstrual equity by combining pad machines or washable pad programs with community partnerships and sexual and reproductive health education. We are also combating period poverty in the U.S. by providing school districts and grassroots organizations across the country with grants to purchase bulk menstrual supplies. Click here to learn more!
2022 YEAR IN REVIEW
The entire Pad Project Team is so grateful for the support of our wonderful donors, each of whom has helped us further the fight for menstrual equity in 2022. Click here to see how our programs have continued to grow and to empower the lives of women and girls around the world.
Our Programs by the Numbers
INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS
Menstrual products provided
Operational pad-making machines in:
India, Nepal, Kenya, Sri Lanka
Girls and women reached with menstrual health education workshops
Washable pad and menstrual cup programs in:
Bahamas, Ghana, Guatemala, Kenya, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda
Disposable & washable pads produced
Women employed in production and sales
U.S. PROGRAMS
Menstrual products distributed
Individuals served
Nonprofit/Individual/School/School district partnerships created
States & Washington D.C.
Ambassador Program
Participants
Products donated
Countries represented
School clubs
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We're stronger together
We are ready to give this project everything we have, but we know we can’t do it alone.