The appeal, which aims to address period poverty and increase the number of freely available period care products – urgently needed across the State – encourages shoppers to purchase any period care product and donate it in store via the pink collection boxes located at the front of every Woolworths store or add a cash donation at Woolworths registers.
Woolworths will also donate five cents from each period care product sold during the drive to help fund support local community initiatives and Share the Dignity’s Dignity Vending Machines, which offer free period products accessible in bathrooms in schools, hospitals, homeless shelters, women’s refuge centres and other local community organisations.
Woolworths Group Manager Anthony Downes thanked shoppers for their generous contribution and helping lessen the impact of an already challenging time, while Share the Dignity NSW Volunteer State Team Leader Leanne Barile says their efforts are “well and truly in motion to end period poverty”.
Donate to tackle ‘period poverty’
RESIDENTS are being urged to think of others and buy extra sanitary pads and tampons to donate to the annual ‘Dignity Drive’ this month.