Women Manufacturing Biodegradable Sanitary Pads

Dear Donor,

There is no doubt that it’s you who has made the sanitary pad companies what they are today. There is also no doubt that we need support to make them even more effective. To employ women who are marginalized in their community, to free a woman who has been enslaved as a sex worker or trafficked at 10, or a daughter of a sex worker who is in an intergenerational prostitution family. This is no small task. It’s one thing to free a woman who lives in a red light district but those who are born into this hell will never be free unless they are educated and have employment that does not degrade their lives and self-esteem.

We think about self-esteem as feeling good about oneself but how about feeling like beatings and enslavement that take away every ounce of dignity as a human being defines you. 

The sanitary pad companies are sanctuaries which is why we are hoping to expand to add more locations, employ more women and buy more pads for vulnearble women. Your donations buy pads for girls in school who have no means to buy pads and would be extremely desperate and vulnerable to continue to attend school.

When we wire money to pad companies, it feels great that we are letting women know that we care about them and see them as worthy of a life free of violence. 

And so, they keep on keeping on as they work daily to make pads and fill voids where women's hygiene is a matter of dignity and determination to keep moving forward. A monthly donation is what keeps us going. 

 Thank you,

Shana

Links:

• Empowering Women Period