UWBC aims to collect 700,000 menstrual products for its Period Promise campaign
KAMLOOPS — United Way British Columbia (UWBC) launched its Period Promise campaign for 2022 Thursday (May 5) morning.
The non-profit organization says it’s working with communities in B.C.’s Interior, Lower Mainland and Central and Northern Vancouver Island to collect a UWBC record of over 700,000 menstrual products, which is 200,000 more than its goal in 2021. UWBC says its goal is higher simply because the need for period products has never been higher.
According to United Way’s research as seen in its Period Promise Final Report, 26 per cent of people who menstruate in B.C. say that they had gone through a period without having menstrual products available to them. Additionally, 13 per cent of people who menstruate in B.C. say that, as dependents, their families had not been able to afford menstrual products on their behalf, while 30 per cent of people say that they haven’t known where to access menstrual products they could afford when their period has hit.