Stigma Ends With Me Campaign

End Period Poverty - End Menstrual Stigma

Help us raise $30,000 to support our efforts and uphold the dignity of those in need.

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Stigma Ends With Me Campaign

The SEM fundraising campaign aims to raise $30,000 to support HAGO’s operational needs. During this campaign we hope to inspire greater awareness about the importance of menstrual health and education.

Your donations will support our education initiatives, community outreach programs, and allow access to resources that empower individuals to better understand and manage their menstrual health.

HAGO’s Operational Budget

30% Educational Workshops

40% Period Product Support Program (PPSP)

30% The Reusables Project (TRP)

Advancing Future Impact

HAGO is guided by our commitment to accelerate menstrual equity through inclusive and sustainable solutions, meeting the diverse needs of our most vulnerable populations. There has never been a greater need for HAGO’s support and services as people struggle with food and housing insecurity while enduring menstrual stigma and shame at home, work and school.

HAGO has bold, ambitious plans for the future. We will scale up and spread our services across Canada to increase our impact among individuals in need and diverse communities. This includes increasing access and education to remote communities. We will invest in the necessary resources including growing and training our dedicated team of staff and volunteers. HAGO will build new partnerships while fostering existing collaborations to deepen our community impact.

Growing Demand for Support

5.4 Million

Immigrants are expected to settle in Ontario over the next 23 years

Menstrual

Inequality is closely linked to income inequality

60% of Ontario’s

Immigrants are between the ages of 20 and 39

In 2022-2023, more than 880,000 People received Ontario social assistance

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$10/month can end period poverty for someone in your community!

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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.