Share the Dignity’s annual Dignity Drive will help to ensure those experiencing or at risk of homelessness, domestic violence or poverty don’t have to risk their health and go through the indignity of using other items in place of period products.
Everything collected through the drive will be distributed to Share the Dignity’s charity partners, including community groups, domestic violence refuges, homeless shelters and other organisations that help support our vulnerable community members.
Woolworths will also donate five cents from the sale of every period product during the drive.
Coinciding with the drive, Share the Dignity will also conduct its second Bloody Big Survey to gain insight into whether period poverty rates have risen.
The survey asks questions about period pain, affordability, period shame, period poverty and other experiences and will be open from March 1 until May 31.
Share the Dignity founder and managing director Rochelle Courtenay said the charity had some big goals this March.
“Every Dignity Drive, I receive messages from our charity partners expressing their gratitude for the period products; it allows them to ensure their clients can deal with their period with dignity,” she said.
“If you have the means to do so, I urge you to drop period products into our collection points nationwide; you never know what someone is going through, and at the very least, let’s ensure women, girls, and those who menstruate don’t have to use cotton wool, toilet paper or socks to manage their period.”
To donate period products to those in need, you can head into Kyabram Woolworths at 60-66 Union St, Kyabram or find a collection point at https://www.sharethedignity.org.au/dignity-drives
To complete the Bloody Big Survey, you can go to https://www.sharethedignity.org.au/end-period-poverty/bloody-big-survey-2024
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