Mama Flo Fundraiser

THE MAMA FLO STORY: 

In June 2020, amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, we were approached by a young man named Khanyisa from Site B, Khayelitsha (who we still work with today) to distribute sanitary products in his community. We had no idea what we were in for or why he needed sanitary products. The three of us got together, spread the word on social media, and were inundated with people donating pads. We still laugh about how we turned Laurie’s family home into a pad factory.

On 16 June 2020, we set off to Site B to hand out the pads, with zero expectations or consideration for what lay ahead. What we witnessed that day was a call to action that we simply could not ignore, and we realised that young people living in these communities were facing a far harsher pandemic—the pandemic of period poverty. This was how Mama Flo was born, with a mission to find short- and long-term sustainable solutions to period poverty. We do this by providing people who menstruate with access and agency to achieve period freedom, free period education, and free period products.

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