Taking Action To
END PERIOD POVERTY
"Menstruation shouldn’t affect your education.Period"
- Aanya Patel
Our Mission
Our Vision
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.
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
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Taking Action To
END PERIOD POVERTY
"Menstruation shouldn’t affect your education.Period"
-Aanya Patel
Taking Action To
END PERIOD POVERTY
"Menstruation shouldn’t affect your education.Period"
-Aanya Patel
Our Mission
Our Vision
Our Founder
Aanya Patel
FOUNDERShe 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.
Our Pilars
Taking Action to End Period Poverty
PILARS
Our Mission
Our Vision
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.
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