Container sent to Lebanon to fight period poverty

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December 9, 2024
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Container sent to Lebanon to fight period poverty

A charity that sends reusable sanitary pads to fight period poverty worldwide has sent a container with aid to Lebanon. Ella Lambert from Essex said that people from all over the UK have donated enough to fill a shipping container.

The items include clothes for children and babies, shoes, blankets, and reusable sanitary pads. Lambert won a Diana Award for her work with the Pachamama Project, the charity that has over 2,500 volunteers in over a dozen countries who make the reusable pads that are sent worldwide.

Since it was founded in 2020, it has sent pads to refugees and vulnerable people in Greece, Pakistan, and the USA, among other places. The team, Lambert said, collected “well over 1,000 boxes of aid” during the summer. Businesses, nurseries, schools, mosques, and church groups have all helped. One mosque donated enough to fill seven camper vans, according to Lambert.

The items donated, Lambert said, will help “8,000 people over the next six months and support another 4,000 people out of period poverty for at least the next five years.”

“We normally get some good responses from the local community because we have relationships with them, but what was amazing was people from all over the country were shipping thousands of hijabs to our home in Essex. We had a whole truckload of hijabs and abayas from Bolton – that’s insane. This will make a massive difference to people who are still in those shelters and to people who are experiencing the ongoing refugee crisis, both from Palestine and Syria, in Lebanon.”

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