Pineapple Foundation launches Project HeyFlow!

Pineapple Foundation’s operations officer, Lana Richardson-Shade presenting the principal of East Mucurapo Secondary School, Mr Phillip with a donation of sanitary napkins for students.  -
Pineapple Foundation’s operations officer, Lana Richardson-Shade presenting the principal of East Mucurapo Secondary School, Mr Phillip with a donation of sanitary napkins for students. -

The Pineapple Foundation, an organisation dedicated to the capacity building and inter-connectedness of women and girls, has launched Project HeyFlow! – an initiative that seeks to combat period poverty among underprivileged women and girls in Trinidad and Tobago.

Period poverty refers to a lack of access to menstrual products, sanitation facilities and adequate education. An estimated 500 million women and girls worldwide are affected by this issue.

President and founder of Pineapple Foundation, councillor Nicole M Young introducing Project HeyFlow. -

In a media release the foundation said, “We want these women and girls to feel comfortable, prepared and less stressed when thinking about this natural process of womanhood and for them to say an emphatic ‘hey!’ to their flow without having to consider funds to purchase feminine hygiene products.”

The foundation has already donated products to three secondary schools – East Mucurapo, Success/Laventille and Signal Hill Secondary Schools. The hygiene products will be placed in guidance counsellors’ and deans’ offices so that girls can discreetly acquire them.

A customer of Viewport Supermarket making a contribution to the donation drive. -

Non-school aged women can also benefit from this initiative through a hotline that will be set up so women in need can contact the foundation seeking support.

“The foundation has also started donation drives that will fuel this project. The first donation drive took place at Viewport Supermarket, Scarborough which was quite a success. They will be at locations in Trinidad soon,” the release said.

Specially invited guests at the launch of Project HeyFlow. -

Anyone wishing to donate products or funds to this initiative or if you need products, contact the Pineapple Foundation at @pineapplefoundationtt on Facebook or Instagram, or call 721-4520/291-0362.

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