The Period Place

Help us smash period stigma, provide period education and disposable/reusable period products to people around NZ who can't afford them.

Nationwide

Our vision is intergenerational period equity in Aotearoa – all period stigma is smashed, everyone has access to menstrual health education + people have access to the period products they want.

The Period Place was part of the Positive Periods Campaign that got free period products in schools and kura across Aotearoa - but kids don't wake up at school.

If a kid can't access period products, you can be sure their family members are struggling to buy them as well.

Working with our Impact Partners (health services, charities, foodbanks, maraes, iwi + community organisations), we have:

- donated over 1.4 million disposable period products

- donated over 10 thousand reusable products

- facilitated and provided menstrual education for thousands of people in Aotearoa (whether they get a period or not!) in the form of brochures, workshops, The Period Place Podcast

- reduced menstrual stigma for thousands of people in Aotearoa through social and traditional media

We've got a small team, but we pack a mighty punch. Help us keep punching above our weight!

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The Period Place is the largest menstrual justice charity in Aotearoa, working towards period equity.

We do this through advocacy, outreach, education, promotion and our nationwide period product donation programme.

The Period Place is uniquely suited in Aotearoa to carry out our mahi under our three foundational pillars: conversation, education and access.

Support us to help us eliminate period stigma, provide education, and disposable and reuseable period products nationwide.

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Thanks for helping us donate so many products this year! 3 November 2022

The year isn't over, but we wanted to jump in here and say THANK YOU to all the bloody legends who have supported us this year.

The Period Place has now donated over:

- donated 1.4 million+ disposable period products

- donated over 10,000 reusable period products products

We've also been able to:

- deliver more menstrual health workshops

- been able to be a part of the Period Product in Schools Education programme

- successfully get bigger grants to get more products out into the regions

- talk at the United Nations CSW event about period poverty in New Zealand and the pathway we're on to achieving our vision of Intergenerational Period Equity for Aotearoa

- host our open day/market day for people to come into The Hub and buy reuseable period products and get heaps of cool education to take home

- meet with HUNDREDS of people and organisations this year to help them reduce period stigma

- eat, yep eat, because we need money to take home too for all the mahi we do, and we can't eat tampons

- and more and more and more!

So here's to you and your loved ones as we enter the end of the year and the Christmas period - may you have a BLOODY great rest of 2022.

- Team TPP x

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