Logan Central Plaza is joining a March Dignity donation drive to help women and teenage girls access period products.
Many go without sanitary products each month because they can’t afford them, due to homelessness, domestic violence and poverty.
It’s the fourth year of the drive, “to make a real on-the-ground difference fighting period poverty”.
Instigated and organised by Australian charity organisation Share the Dignity, the initiative seeks to provide period and incontinence products for those in crisis.
They request donations of tampons, pads, liners, period underwear, menstrual cups, and incontinence products to distribute to those in need.
Share the Dignity founder Rochelle Courtenay said the organisation, through this donation drive, helps in some small way to alleviate the undignified situations that thousands of women across the country endure.
“So many women every month have to forfeit period products because they cannot afford them. Many mothers must choose between buying tampons and feeding their children. Girls miss out on school simply because families cannot afford to buy the basics of necessities,” Ms Courtenay said.
“When they cannot have access to the essential period products, women become extremely resourceful…by using wadded up newspaper, or toilet paper, or socks. This should not be happening.”
Ms Courtenay said she was thrilled to have Retail First shopping centres on board again.
“Their fabulous pink collection boxes are definitely hard to miss.”
Retail First marketing chief Bec Gascoigne said the donation drive was a wonderful opportunity for everyday shoppers to help a local woman or teenage girl in need.
“Our customers have been so generous in previous donation drives, last year customers donated over 16,000 products,” she said.
“The Dignity Drive creates a wonderful opportunity for everyday shoppers to help local women and teenage girls in need. Something as simple and inexpensive as a packet of tampons will make a great difference to a young Queensland woman in need next month.
“Rochelle’s stories about women and girls in crisis touched our hearts and we shed tears hearing of young girls not going to school while they have their period. We knew we had to continue to be involved in this very worthy donation drive.”
