28-05-2025
Period Promise event tackles period poverty on Menstrual Hygiene Day
Members of Chatham-Kent Secondary School's student council at their own menstrual product drive. (Source: The United Way Windsor-Essex Chatham-Kent)
The United Way Windsor-Essex Chatham-Kent is holding a drive-through donation event, collecting menstrual products to combat period poverty.
The products collected will support people with periods in the Chatham-Kent region.
'Period Promise is about dignity, equity, and ensuring everyone in our community has access to the basic products they need,' said Lorraine Goddard, CEO of the United Way Windsor-Essex Chatham-Kent.
'Menstrual hygiene products are essential, not optional. This event gives our community a meaningful way to help remove the barriers too many people still face.'
If you would like to drop off products, the drive-through will run from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., accepting pads, tampons, pantyliners, menstrual cups, and other brand new, unopened products. They can be delivered to Our Savior's Lutheran Church at 445 McNaughton Avenue West, Chatham.
If you are unable to make it in person, you are asked to help spread the word, organize a mini drive, or consider making a donation online here.
Collection was kicked off by the Chatham-Kent Secondary School student council, who organized their own school-wide drive to support Period Promise.
