Partners
Partners
We at The Pad Project are grateful for our partners on the ground who help monitor and ensure the success of each program. Thanks to your contributions, The Pad Project has placed 9 pad machines in India and Sri Lanka and implemented washable pad programs in The Bahamas, Ghana, Guatemala, Kenya, Sierra Leone, and Uganda. With your help, in 2021 we hope to place machines in India, Kenya, and Nepal.
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. Use the links below to learn more about our partnerships!
Please note, we are not accepting new international partners at this time. If you have any questions, please email us at info@thepadproject.org
OUR PARTNERS AROUND THE GLOBE
Ahadi Pads
Inua Dada Foundation
Uzima Pads
Alexandria House
CSUN WRRC
Covenant House CA
Downey USD
Montebello USD
Santa Ana USD
Students Against Period Poverty
The Source LGBT+ Center
The Ladybug Program
Union Rescue Mission
Women 4 Women Tempe
Women's Foundation Nepal
I Support The Girls
Power Pump Girls
Thurman Perry Foundation
CADA
East Troy High School
Action India
Desai Foundation
Eco Hub
KSCF
Little Flock School
MicroX Foundation
NISHTHA
Steward's Trust
Cova Project
Plan for the Villages Uganda
Pencils of Promise
Dignified Girl Project
A. L. Mebane Middle School
Lauren P.
St. Vincent de Paul
Northwest Connect
Morgan County School District Re-3
No More Secrets MBS
MASA Las Adelitas
Dignity Grows
Women's Refugee Care
Arka Initiative
WAJAMAMA
Pencils of Promise
Sierra Leone Rising


OUR NGO PARTNERS
Pads for All (U.S.)










Photograph credit:
ELIZABETH ROBERTSON / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER FROM THE INQUIRER

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Sherin Dawud and Raina Vallot, co-founders, Power Pump Girls, Inc.







Pads for Schools







Leap of Faith Grant

“Providing these products in the foster community within my community is a step towards bringing girls what they need. A period should never stop a girl from going to school, extra activities, or daily life. I wanted to bring awareness within my community about period poverty and just period acceptance all together because this issue affects women all around the world and if I can improve some of it within my community it is still a change in the right direction.”
-Lauren
The Pad Project is thrilled to have supported Lauren’s work by donating menstrual products for her period packages. Thank you, Lauren, for being an advocate for menstrual health!
Pad Machine Program






Washable Menstrual Product Program




The Pad Project has partnered with PoP to implement a reusable cloth pad-making program in the Zona Reina region of Guatemala. The project will teach PoP staff and local teachers how to make reusable pads with cloth and sewing kits. Teachers will then work with their students, both boys and girls, to create reusable pads. Students will be able to create their own pads, which will help them manage their periods.
The project will serve an estimate of 600 students in two schools and provide training to them, as well as 30 teachers, on how to use the reusable pads. Our collective goal is that this reusable cloth pad-making program will expand to different schools in the community and create sustainable social change by increasing access to menstrual hygiene products.
Photography by Nick Onken

NGO PARTNERS FUNDED BY L. & THE PAD PROJECT
Pads for All (U.S.)



Pad Machine Program



The Pad Project is partnering with the Inua Dada Foundation to place a manual pad machine in Nairobi County. The project, funded by our official period care partner This is L., aims to promote period equity by providing safe, affordable, and accessible menstrual hygiene products to women and girls. The pad machine will employ 5-6 women to produce and sell quality sanitary pads at affordable prices.
One of the women who will be working on the machine says, “It's so difficult trying to manage my menstruation. I'm 22 with an 8 month-old baby, I don't have any consistent income stream and I can barely afford food and diapers, let alone pads. Women and girls need quality and safe menstrual management materials to manage their menstrual periods with dignity and pride.”
During the first year, the project will provide sanitary menstrual products and menstrual hygiene management workshops for approximately 8,000 individuals.



Washable Menstrual Product Program


In Malawi, DfG has partnered with Chief Theresa Kachindamoto, a world leader in preventing early child marriage, to support the distribution of period kits and the implementation of menstrual health management workshops. All pads will be made by local enterprise leaders in Malawi. In Zimbabwe, DfG is working with local enterprise leaders to provide period kits and menstrual hygiene education to 500 girls and women. In Lebanon, local DfG leaders are distributing period kits to Lebanese and Syrian refugees to combat the recent 500% price increase in menstrual products, which have been exacerbated by COVID-19 and the Beirut explosions. In Uganda, DfG is working with local leaders to provide period kits to female prisoners who have had no access to menstrual products since COVID shut down their supply.

The Pad Project and Pencils of Promise are excited to partner to reach more students enrolled in PoP’s reusable cloth pad-making program across schools in Ghana. This project will educate local teachers and students – of all genders – on how to create reusable pads with cloth and sewing kits, then equip them with skills to practice healthy menstrual hygiene management.
This partnership will serve an estimated 800 students throughout small, rural communities in Ghana. Our collective goal is to offer direct services related to menstrual hygiene management through our reusable cloth pad-making program. We hope to expand this initiative across PoP schools in the community and create sustainable social change by increasing access to menstrual hygiene products and education. So far, approximately 2,385 washable pads have been produced, serving 795 menstruators. Unfortunately, because of COVID-19 restrictions, PoP has not yet been able to resume their MHM programming.



Contact Uzima Healthcare at uzimahealthcarekenya@gmail.com or call +254 (0) 714 950 928 to learn more.
PROGRAMMATIC PARTNERS

As a Gen-Z agency, we wanted to make sure we did business "for good." Alongside starting our company, we started a project called "Hygiene U Give" or "H.U.G." which aims to provide menstrual care products to underserved communities in LA. Since starting H.U.G. last year, we have donated over 600 hygiene kits to South Central LA. We are proud to partner with The Pad Project to continue fighting for period equality.





Over 4 billion tonnes of garbage are produced yearly in the US alone from disposable period products. The Period Company’s underwear and pads are non-disposable, last for years, and are completely free of PFAS toxins.
In 2021, periods should not be a barrier to anyone. The Pad Project is excited to be teaming up with The Period Company, who will be our official sustainable period product, and together, we’re working to eliminate period poverty in the U.S.
ORGANIZATIONAL PARTNERS



We're stronger together
We’re ready to give this project everything we have, but we know we can’t do it alone.