Here’s the situation
Girls and women around the world often resort to rags and leaves to manage their monthly flow. To avoid embarrassment, they skip school, drop out, become child brides, and have successive unintended pregnancies.
Without knowledge of how their body works, they are unprepared for their periods, sexual intimacy, and pregnancy. This lack of information causes fear and lowered self-confidence.
We change that.
By providing girls with reusable sanitary pads and reproductive health education, we work to elevate the quality of their lives.
When a girl stays in school, she learns a skill, delays marriage, and becomes an economic driver for herself and her community. She takes a stand against violence, has the confidence to lead, and ends the patriarchal system that has defeated her for too long.
That’s Women To Be.
How we help
We support and educate the reproductive health of girls and women in Nepal, Mexico, Zambia, and the Navajo Nation of New Mexico.
We distribute ‘kits’ of washable sanitary pads and underwear.
Effective menstrual management is a basic human right. It levels the gender equity field.
We provide reproductive health classes.
Knowledge is power. We prepare girls for menstruation, sexual intimacy, and more control over their life options.
We establish sewing centers to fabricate our ‘kits’ locally.
We train, employ, and teach leadership skills to women to ensure a sustainable future.
We ensure environmentally friendly solutions with our reusable products.
There’s nothing to throw away in places where there’s no place to throw it.
Our ‘Kits’
We distribute reusable kits to girls and women who do not have access to disposable menstrual products. Each kit contains 8 sanitary pads, 2 ‘wrappers’ with waterproof barriers, a washcloth, a drawstring bag, and 2 ziplock bags for daily storage of used pads which are rinsed and dried overnight. Learn more
We remain unafraid of blood when we shed it for power
When we shed it for birth, we run
We flee her miracle, yet we find comfort in man-made mortality
when it would cost us nothing but education and compassion
to keep all her dignity inside us.
Hakeem Bellamy, former Albuquerque Poet Laureate, from Rites of Passage
Contact us
csglidden@swcp.com