In 2009, we were providing assistance to a homeless day center in Camden, NJ by donating gently used business clothes for job interviews. A woman at the day center thanked our group for the clothes and then told us she didn’t have a decent bra to wear underneath them. She wasn’t the only one. So we asked what else they needed. The answer? Pads and tampons.
As women, we couldn’t stop thinking about what it would be like to have an inadequate bra or none at all. Moreover, we couldn’t comprehend rationing out monthly supplies or worse…going without them.
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#DistributingDignity For Women In Need
Human Rights City
She is the founder and Editor-at-Large of The Urban Activist. In 2019, she launched this non-profit publication to energise creative approaches to pressing urban issues.
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