Dear Friends,
I am wondering if you are still out there. I am wondering if you are still reading. I am wondering if I am speaking to the void….
I have come back to write this because it’s important. Because I wanted to speak to you about shame, about embarrassment, about taboos. About not having what you need just because you are a girl and you have — wait for this — periods. Yes, periods. Now If you are a girl or a woman, I imagine that you are very familiar with periods. And you know what to do - what to buy - when you get them. An annoyance for most but not deal breaking. Life it goes on….and you live it fully (or almost).
Now imagine this…Imagine that you were a teen girl who didn’t have the money to buy the products to manage this very normal thing that happened to you every month. And that you were embarrassed — embarrassed you might leak. So you didn’t go out, didn’t go to school during those heavy days. Yes, imagine that you suffered from period poverty. Millions of girls and women do.
And so today on International Women’s Day, I ask you to walk with me, shoulder to shoulder, to do something to help. Just $12 will give a teen girl a period kit good for 3 years so that she can go to school, play sports, and be free and unashamed during her period. She deserves that, yes?
Just $12. Right now. Right here on Global Giving for the girls of Project Soar. There couldn’t be a more useful +inexpensive thing to do on International Women’s Day. Project Soar is competing to win one of 8 slots on the Girls Fund that will unlock $10-$15,000. We are currently in the 19th place. Please help, in honor of a teen girl you love, or perhaps in honor of the teen girl you were.
Let’s do this!
Love,
Maryam