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/PRNewswire/ -- Next Sunday, on October 15th, the National Summit on Period Poverty will convene at the LBJ Presidential Library on the University of Texas...
When Jessica Zachs learned that a rising number of girls, women and those who menstruate couldn’t access period products, she launched Dignity Grows, a nonprofit to combat the inequity.
BIRMINGHAM — When Wylie E. Groves High School teacher Kara Mason assigned a passion project to her student congress course, students brainstormed how they could benefit their community through their project.
Connecticut charity Dignity Grows spreading nationwide in mission to fight period poverty Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant Jessica Zachs of West Hartford founded Dignity Grows almost two years ago to help those experiencing “period poverty” in the Hartford area. Since then, Dignity Grows has grown, to 16 chapters nationwide, with 22 more coming soon. Volunteers in these chapters distribute thousands of free hygiene tote bags to adults and teens whose budgets are stretched too thin to make room for sanitary pads. The need has heightened as a result of the coronavirus pandemic,...