What is Period Poverty?
Period poverty is defined as the lack of access to safe and hygienic menstrual products during monthly periods and inaccessibility to basic sanitation facilities as well as menstrual hygiene education. It affects 44% of our Jamaican girls in school.
About Us
My name is Shantay Bailey, and I am the Founder and Executive of Girls Do Good Foundation.
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Girls Do Good Foundation was launched on January 15, 2021, during the Covid-19 pandemic, as the thought of Period Poverty weighed heavily on me, especially during my menses. I thought about the women and girls in our country who were unable to afford and had no access to sanitary napkins and personal hygiene items during that period of time and I needed to do something to help.
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The Mission of the Girls Do Good Foundation is to provide feminine products for young women and girls in low-income families in Jamaica and since being in operation we have done a total of 40 official distributions across communities and girls homes. We have also given to our homeless citizens via our drop-in centers and provided for families who reached out to us personally and we have also partnered with What Women Want Ja and installed a sanitary napkin cupboard in Twickenham Park, St. Catherine that is monitored by the Founders of the NutriLife Outreach Program and another in partnership with AHF at the Marcus Garvey Junior High School.
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Through the support we have received from our Jamaican Citizens right here at home and overseas and companies such as AHF Jamaica and Lasco Distributors, we have given over 50,000 personal hygiene products, including over 8000 packs of sanitary packs to our communities and girls’ homes across Jamaica.