A Red Pantry gives everyone an opportunity to quietly help those around them who may be short product or experiencing period poverty.
Red Pantry is a great way for people who want to help end period poverty in Australia but don’t know how or where to start. Running a Red Pantry is easy, you take a waterproof box, fill it with period/menstrual products, add instructions and put it in a bathroom you frequent.
Period poverty is the term used when talking about the struggle many people face trying to afford menstrual products. It also can refer to a larger scale issue of a lack of access to menstrual hygiene education, toilets, handwashing facilities, or waste management.
Period poverty can happen to anyone, at any time, even those we don’t expect. Any menstruating person can be caught out and need a product.
Anywhere you go, there may be someone experiencing
period poverty. Consider the places you frequent – work, schools, places frequented by younger people like dance schools or classes, community centres or halls , social groups, cafes, libraries, and anywhere else – all of these places can benefit from a Red Pantry.
You can help others by creating a Red Pantry. You can run your Red Pantry on your own or with friends or colleagues, and let others know too. We’ve got everything you need to let people know. Check out our Red Pages for suggestions of subscription period products too.
Here’s how to start:
We would like to acknowledge the Traditional Owners of all the lands and waters throughout Australia on which our work takes place. In particular, we acknowledge the Turrbal and Yagara people of the Yagara Nations on whose Country See Red Australia is based and was founded on. We pay our respects to Elders — past, present and emerging — and acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.
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