Events

Packing Parties

At Help a Girl Out, we invite forward-thinking corporations to join us in the fight against period poverty by sponsoring a menstrual hygiene kit packing event. This is a unique opportunity for companies to engage their employees in meaningful volunteer work while supporting a critical cause. Your team’s time and effort can directly impact the lives of those in need, helping ensure everyone has access to essential period products.

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5K Run

At our annual Menstrual Hygiene Day 5K Run, participants come together to raise awareness about menstrual health and advocate for an end to period poverty. This empowering event brings the community together to support menstrual equity, with every step symbolizing progress toward breaking the stigma surrounding menstruation.

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Fundraising Gala

Our annual fundraising gala is a night of celebration, impact, and inspiration. This highly anticipated event shines a spotlight on the incredible strides we’ve made in the fight against period poverty, while honoring the dedication of our volunteers and supporters. Attendees will experience an unforgettable evening filled with powerful stories, live entertainment, and opportunities to connect with like-minded individuals and partner organizations who are passionate about menstrual equity.

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Support Our Efforts On The Ground

We know where period poverty needs to be fought. We’re already on the front lines, listening, connecting, and caring. We just need your help fighting it.

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Based in Brampton, Canada, we address period poverty at home and abroad.

CRA registered charity number: 736051517RR0001

“Growing up in Jamaica—access to essential materials like sanitary pads was a luxury. Most of what we had we needed to spend making sure we could eat or get to school. By the end of the month, we couldn’t afford sanitary pads. We would use paper, cardboard—and a range of other things to meet our needs. When I got to Canada I realized that this wasn’t tied to geography. It was global—and in Toronto, the need was really there. So I started Help A Girl Out in 2018. Since then we’ve delivered thousands of hygiene materials to women and girls in across Canada, and around the world.”

She is inspired by her mother, who handcrafted pads for her to wear to school so that she could have equal education and escape the poverty that she was exposed to in her home. & uses her experiences and that of her siblings and peers as a driving force behind her passion for Help A Girl Out (HAGO) and eliminating period poverty. Since 2020, HAGO has distributed hundreds of thousands of hygiene and menstrual product kits for the homeless, refugee, BIPOC and low-income communities in the Toronto GTA and beyond as the COVID-19 crisis had severely impacted Canadians, forcing many families below the poverty line and worsening the circumstances of those who were already there.

She was awarded Global Citizen’s Canada’s Hero Award for her advocacy work through Help A Girl Out, the Viola Desmond award bursary by TMU, the Brampton Board of Trade: Community Impact Award & most recently the Toronto Youth Cabinet: Youth Advocay award.

In addition to her humanitarian efforts, Yanique holds a BSc in Medical Physics and is completing her masters in Biomedical Physics at Ryerson/TMU University. Her area of research aims to improve medical imaging in proton therapy cancer therapy.