Taking Action To
END PERIOD POVERTY
Embrace the flow
"Menstruation shouldn’t affect your education.Period"
- Aanya Patel
Our Mission
To provide free menstrual hygiene products and education to students and youth in underserved communities to help improve their health, confidence, and self-esteem. Our goal is to END PERIOD POVERTY for ALL menstruators and remove the stigma associated with it through advocacy.
Our Vision
Global Girls Initiative envisions a world where menstrual hygiene education and access to products are no longer needed and a world where future generations have the knowledge, resources, and confidence to lead their communities.
Our Show
We’re Headed to New York Fashion Week!
Global Girls Initiative is launching our period-positive T-shirt collection on the runway at New York Fashion Week to end the period stigma. Our goal is to normalize menstruation and tackle period poverty by first addressing the stigma.
Proceeds from each T-shirt purchase goes towards installing menstrual product dispensers in school bathrooms nationwide to ensure every menstruating student can feel confident & comfortable attending classes, participate in after-school activities, not miss school & reach their full potential.
Join our movement in creating a solution! Sign up below to be the first to know when our period-positive collection drops.
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Our Founder
Aanya Patel
FOUNDERAn advocate for social change and a public speaker, Aanya Patel founded Global Girls Initiative at the age of 14. She believes that period products are a basic necessity that should be easily accessible to all and equally believes in the importance of menstrual education.
Through advocacy, her mission is to remove the stigma surrounding periods and improve menstrual hygiene products and education accessibility. Aanya has innovated and branded a cost-effective menstural hygiene dispenser that holds different brands and sizes of menstrual products. These dispensers have been installed in over 50 + Title I middle and high schools and universities in Florida. Aanya is working to place these cost-effective menstrual hygiene dispensers in all the schools, colleges, universities and workplaces nationally and globally to end period poverty.
She has been recognized for her work by Procter & Gamble’ s Always as a Period Hero, named a Goal Getter by the Tampa Bay Lightning, and awarded the Spirit of Community Award by the Florida Commission on the Status of Women. Additionally, she has worked with Florida House of Representative member Kelly Skidmore to pass a Florida law (HB 389), allowing school districts to provide period products within their schools at no cost. Aanya is working with different state representatives nationwide to help pass legislation to provide period products for schools and universities at no charge.
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Our Pilars
Taking Action to End Period Poverty
PILARS
ALIGNING OUR WORK WITH THE UNITED NATIONS SDGS
ALIGNING OUR WORK WITH THE UNITED NATIONS SDGS
Our Impact
Menstrual Hygiene Products Donated
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Girls and Menstruators Impacted
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Community Outreach
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Taking Action To
END PERIOD POVERTY
Embrace the flow
"Menstruation shouldn’t affect your education.Period"
-Aanya Patel
Taking Action To
END PERIOD POVERTY
Embrace the flow
"Menstruation shouldn’t affect your education.Period"
-Aanya Patel
Our Mission
To provide free menstrual hygiene products and education to students and youth in underserved communities to help improve their health, confidence, and self-esteem. Our goal is to END PERIOD POVERTY for ALL menstruators and remove the stigma associated with it through advocacy.
Our Vision
Global Girls Initiative envisions a world where menstrual hygiene education and access to products are no longer needed and a world where future generations have the knowledge, resources, and confidence to lead their communities.
Our Show
We’re Headed to New York Fashion Week!
Global Girls Initiative is launching our period-positive T-shirt collection on the runway at New York Fashion Week to end the period stigma. Our goal is to normalize menstruation and tackle period poverty by first addressing the stigma.
Proceeds from each T-shirt purchase goes towards installing menstrual product dispensers in school bathrooms nationwide to ensure every menstruating student can feel confident & comfortable attending classes, participate in after-school activities, not miss school & reach their full potential.
Join our movement in creating a solution! Sign up below to be the first to know when our period-positive collection drops.
Sign up to see our newest collection.
Our Founder
Aanya Patel
FOUNDER
Through advocacy, her mission is to remove the stigma surrounding periods and improve menstrual hygiene products and education accessibility. Aanya has innovated and branded a cost-effective menstural hygiene dispenser that holds different brands and sizes of menstrual products. These dispensers have been installed in over 50 + Title I middle and high schools and universities in Florida. Aanya is working to place these cost-effective menstrual hygiene dispensers in all the schools, colleges, universities and workplaces nationally and globally to end period poverty.
She has been recognized for her work by Procter & Gamble’ s Always as a Period Hero, named a Goal Getter by the Tampa Bay Lightning, and awarded the Spirit of Community Award by the Florida Commission on the Status of Women. Additionally, she has worked with Florida House of Representative member Kelly Skidmore to pass a Florida law (HB 389), allowing school districts to provide period products within their schools at no cost. Aanya is working with different state representatives nationwide to help pass legislation to provide period products for schools and universities at no charge.
She has been recognized for her work by Procter & Gamble’ s Always as a Period Hero, named a Goal Getter by the Tampa Bay Lightning, and awarded the Spirit of Community Award by the Florida Commission on the Status of Women. Additionally, she has worked with Florida House of Representative member Kelly Skidmore to pass a Florida law (HB 389), allowing school districts to provide period products within their schools at no cost. Aanya is working with different state representatives nationwide to help pass legislation to provide period products for schools and universities at no charge.
Play Video
Our Pilars
Taking Action to End Period Poverty
PILARS
Our Mission
To provide free menstrual hygiene products and education to students and youth in underserved communities to help improve their health, confidence, and self-esteem. Our goal is to END PERIOD POVERTY for ALL menstruators and remove the stigma associated with it through advocacy.
Our Vision
Global Girls Initiative envisions a world where menstrual hygiene education and access to products are no longer needed and a world where future generations have the knowledge, resources, and confidence to lead their communities.
Our show
We’re Headed to New York Fashion Week!
Global Girls Initiative is launching our period-positive T-shirt collection on the runway at New York Fashion Week to end the period stigma. Our goal is to normalize menstruation and tackle period poverty by first addressing the stigma.
Proceeds from each T-shirt purchase goes towards installing menstrual product dispensers in school bathrooms nationwide to ensure every menstruating student can feel confident & comfortable attending classes, participate in after-school activities, not miss school & reach their full potential.
Join our movement in creating a solution! Sign up below to be the first to know when our period-positive collection drops.
Sign up to see our newest collection.
Sign Up
Sign Up
Our Founder
Aanya Patel
FOUNDER
An advocate for social change and a public speaker, Aanya Patel founded Global Girls Initiative at the age of 14. She believes that period products are a basic necessity that should be easily accessible to all and equally believes in the importance of menstrual education.
Through advocacy, her mission is to remove the stigma surrounding periods and improve menstrual hygiene products and education accessibility. Aanya has innovated and branded a cost-effective menstural hygiene dispenser that holds different brands and sizes of menstrual products. These dispensers have been installed in over 50 + Title I middle and high schools and universities in Florida. Aanya is working to place these cost-effective menstrual hygiene dispensers in all the schools, colleges, universities and workplaces nationally and globally to end period poverty.
She has been recognized for her work by Procter & Gamble’ s Always as a Period Hero, named a Goal Getter by the Tampa Bay Lightning, and awarded the Spirit of Community Award by the Florida Commission on the Status of Women. Additionally, she has worked with Florida House of Representative member Kelly Skidmore to pass a Florida law (HB 389), allowing school districts to provide period products within their schools at no cost. Aanya is working with different state representatives nationwide to help pass legislation to provide period products for schools and universities at no charge.
Play Video
Our Pilars
Taking Action to End Period Poverty
PILARS
ALIGNING OUR WORK WITH THE UNITED NATIONS SDGS
ALIGNING OUR WORK WITH THE UNITED NATIONS SDGS
Our Impact
Our Impact
Menstrual Hygiene Products Donated
0
Girls and Menstruators Impacted
0
Community Outreach
0
Menstrual Hygiene Products Donated
0
Girls and Menstruators Impacted
0
Community Outreach
0