Menstrual Health Resources

International

Around the world, on any given day, more than 800 million people are menstruating.  And at least five million of those lack adequate resources supplies, education, and facilities for managing their periods. The following organizations provide support across the globe:

• Society for Menstrual Cycle Research
• Every Woman’s Right to Hygiene and Sanitation
• Launch Pad:  How An Indian Engineer Reversed-Engineered the Making of Sanitary Pads
• The Unlikely Sanitary Pad Missionary
• ZanaAfrica Foundation
• Afripads
• The Cup
• Days For Girls

 

National

There is still work to be done in the US menstrual health sector. Menstrual health products are ineligible for purchases made with public benefits such as WIC or SNAP; are not readily available in public spaces such as schools, workplaces or government buildings; remain subject to sales tax; and are often inaccessible in shelters, crisis centers, jails or prisons. The following organizations provide support across the U.S.:

• Alliance for Period Supplies
• #Happy Period
• Helping Girls and Women, Period (NYT)
• The Case for Free Tampons (The Guardian)
• For Homeless Women, Getting Their Period Is One Of The Most Difficult Challenges (Huffington Post)
• Women in Federal Prison to Get Tampons and Pads
• She Supply (Texas)
• The Period Collective (Chicago, IL)
• Distributing Dignity (National)
• Menstrual Cycles and Mental Health

 

Michigan

Helping Women Period is not the only organization or group focusing on the distribution of menstrual health products. The following organizations provide support across Michigan: 

• Support the Girls (Detroit)

 

HWP In The Media

• We Struck a Nerve (ELi)
• Helping Women with an Unmet Need (LSJ)
• Fundraiser brings in $3K (LSJ)
• WKAR Radio Interview (Our interview starts at 30:28)
• WLNS Interview
• Lansing Made Interview