CHARITY SPOTLIGHT {giving back}
CHANGING THE CYCLE Go With the Flow is there when girls need it By Karen Werner
THE STORY In 2017, Demetra Presley saw a Facebook video that changed her life. The video showed how a teacher, who was often approached by students asking for menstrual hygiene products, reached out to her social network to collect makeup bags, pads and tampons to make “period packs” to give to her students. “The video was shocking to me,” Presley said. “I didn’t know this was a need students had, or something that schools struggled to provide adequate resources for.” After seeing the video, Presley felt compelled to find out if this was an issue in Arizona. She
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The public is encouraged to become part of “the tampon tribe” by donating menstrual hygiene products, attending a period pack party, coordinating a donation drive, or spreading community awareness.
