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Nonprofit brings free period products to every Papillion La Vista school to reduce barriers to attendance
Summary
Kristen Lowry, founder of Access Period, describes how the Nebraska nonprofit supplies free menstrual and hygiene products to schools, about 60 partner nonprofits and 10 public access points, and urges donations and stigma reduction to end period poverty.
Kristen Lowry, founder and executive director of Access Period, said her Nebraska nonprofit now provides free menstrual and other hygiene products through three channels: schools, roughly 60 nonprofit partners and about 10 public access points where anyone can receive supplies with "absolutely no questions asked." "We are a nonprofit that serves the whole state of Nebraska with free period products," Lowry said.
The program reached Papillion La Vista Community Schools after school social workers reported that some students were missing class because they lacked sanitary products. "We have products…
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