At least once a day, the Period Pantry, a pink box outside the Catherine McAuley Center in Scranton, is emptied of free menstrual supplies and restocked with about 60 tampons and sanitary pads. The ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Lysne Tait made a special delivery to Burton Elementary and Middle School in mid-August. She parked her cherry red van in the driveway, jumped out, and began unloading large ...

Some people still believe that period poverty doesn’t happen in the United States. It does – and people miss work and school because of it.” — Joanne Samuel Goldblum, CEO, National Diaper Bank Network ...

APPLETON — Before the pandemic, a group of women across northeast Wisconsin nonprofits came across a problem in their community: students were skipping school because they couldn't access necessary ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn., Oct. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- More than three-quarters of Americans believe that period supplies should be available free-of-charge at public schools and public universities. A new ...

INDIANAPOLIS (MIRROR INDY) — A local nonprofit is seeking help making sure teens have access to period supplies this summer. Project Period launched in January 2017 with a goal of helping teens access ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A local group of advocates from MADvoters Indiana will rally at the Indiana Statehouse Wednesday to call for the elimination of the so-called “tampon tax.” MADvoters is a ...

Kylie DeFrance is an eighth-grade teacher at a Title I charter school in Austin. May 28, 2022 is Menstrual Hygiene Day, an annual awareness day to help normalize menstruation and highlight the of ...

Preparing your child for their first period—and roughly 40 more years of menstruation that follow—can feel like a big responsibility. But this milestone doesn't have to be overwhelming or awkward. In ...