20 February 2022
Read Moreby Sabrina Baldini
Photo credit: Vulvania
Why I joined The Period Purse.
I have long been passionate about sexual health and reproductive freedom and have volunteered in varying capacities - from public health to rape crisis counselling to teaching sex education abroad. I was first introduced to period poverty teaching sex education in Nairobi, Kenya. I noticed the older the students were, the less likely it was to have girls in the class. I asked questions and period poverty came up. The idea that mens...
17 January 2022
Read Moreby Jannie Nheng
Want to run a mini drive? Congratulations, you have already done the hardest part. A mini drive might look like bringing together your friends and colleagues to collect period products, or maybe you’ll run an online peer to peer fundraiser. Every successful drive looks different, but all of them require a plan. First, you create a mini drive game plan! With every effort to ensure your mini drive is a success, The Period Purse (TPP) offers a handbook with detailed instructions, checklist...
3 October 2021
Read Moreby Jana Girdauskas
The Collective: a group of generous people who believe that everyone should have a healthy period.
$15 is all that it takes to bring someone a healthy period. $15 is a couple of lattes. One fast food lunch. A bottle of wine. Giving up one of these treats provides one person with the period products they need to handle their period every month so they don't have to resort to toilet paper and rags that leak and cause infection.
$15 a month is all it takes. We have an ambitious goal ...
4 September 2021
Read Moreby Jannie Nheng
Achieve menstrual equity by providing free menstrual products, and to reduce the stigma surrounding periods - this has been the mission at The Period Purse (TPP) and we continue to honour it. We are happy to announce our collaboration with the Superior-Greenstone District School Board to bring this vision to life. The board is located in North-Western Ontario and spans a large geographical area, with one of the school’s being 400km away from the main school office. But the distance does...
8 August 2021
Read Moreby Jana Girdauskas
It all started with one purse, helping one person. It was a beautiful thing and it blossomed into something so much bigger than we could imagine.
A wise person once told me, “the only constant in life is change”. As TPP grows, we continue to evolve in order to better contribute to our community. We said goodbye to purses a while ago. The pandemic cemented that decision and we don't collect any more purses. And we aren't going back.
Purses were a lovely touch ...