Period Action Days - Donation Collection

Period Action Days

Nearly one-quarter of teenage students and 1 in 10 college students in the US experience Period Poverty – which is the inability to access menstrual hygiene products.  Between COVID shortages and financial instabilities – students (and even adults) choose to not go to school or work due to the shame of not having necessary items. 

The Olympia Soroptimist Club joined with the Thurston County National Organization for Women (NOW) and the Woman’s Club of Olympia to sponsor Period Action Day.

The donations of feminine hygiene products for girls and women will help fill the gap this school year until the new laws regarding provisions of hygiene materials in schools take effect next year.

Please join Soroptimists International of Olympia in collecting feminine hygiene products for women and girls in need. Donations will be provided to five local organizations. 

• CIELO 
• Community Youth Services 
• Family Support Center 
• Safeplace Olympia 
• The Other Bank at Thurston County Food Bank

For more information, contact Irene Lewis at 360-280-9460 or lenandirene@msn.com