LANSING, MI — Helping Women Period, a Lansing-based nonprofit that has distributed over nine million menstrual products since 2015, has announced it will end operations today.
Co-founder Lysne Tait told media partner 6 News WLNS that the nonprofit started accidentally over 10 years ago after the cofounders of the program saw a lack of period products accessible to people in their neighborhood in need.
The organization through the years expanded its partnerships from 14 in the first year to over 400 by its final year. The closure of the organization, the cofounders say, is mainly due to a lack of donor funding, rising costs and a lack of hands-on support.
“Our society is so focused on cleanliness, but we don’t do anything to help our most vulnerable with cleaning products. For example, SNAP and WIC don’t offer diapers, pads and tampons.”
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