Charity Share the Dignity will distribute the donations to girls and women who cannot afford to buy sanitary items each month.
The 2019 Dignity Drive, which was held in August, collected nearly 38,000 sanitary products across NSW’s Woolworths stores.
Woolworths Canterbury-Bankstown group manager Jarda Von Drasek is hoping customers again get behind this month’s donation drive again to help girls and women experiencing poverty, homelessness and domestic violence.
“Last year, we saw so many of our customers generously donate to the Dignity Drive; it was heartwarming to see how enthusiastic they were in helping us support local women in need,” she said.
Share the Dignity CEO Deborah Ferguson said using wadded up toilet paper or socks to manage their periods is “a sad reality” for too many girls and women today.
“When you are shopping at Woolworths this March, Share the Dignity encourages you to think, ‘one for me, one for her’, because while it may seem like a small gesture, we know small dignities make a big difference,” she said.
