A charity growing a global network of volunteers to make reusable period pads for refugees and vulnerable communities that experience period poverty.
Joined August 2020
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“In the way we have toilet rolls in every public bathroom, there should be free sanitary products.” @ellalambertnow.
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Period poverty is a particular issue in refugee camps during conflict.
“When you hear the war sirens in the middle of the night and you grab a bag and grab anything you can get your hands on, who thinks to pack sanitary products?” said period poverty activist @ellalambertnow.
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Girls across the 🌍 tell me that stigma, inadequate infrastructure and lack of access to menstrual products disrupt their education.
I partnered with @micksheldrick @glblctzn to bring together changemakers passionate about breaking down these barriers. #RightsFreedomChoice
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Ella came to talk to our Y9's about her charity @ThePachaProject. We launched a club for the students to make some period products that could be sent off to refugees & people suffering period poverty in various countries, as well as the UK #schoolstogether #powerofpartnerships
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"Sanitary products are a right, they shouldn't be a luxury."
How hand-stitched pads are fighting period poverty in Lebanon
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@ellalambertnow set up @thepachaproject whilst studying at @BristolUni. The project helps refugees via distributing free reusable sanitary products. It’s now a global network of 2,000 volunteers who’ve sewn 100,000 colourful pads. @RachMcMenemy reports:
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Ella started making reusable period pads for refugees in lockdown - now @ThePachaProject has received charity status! 🎉
The languages student leads a network of 2,000 volunteers who have lifted 13,000 women out of period poverty.
Congratulations, Ella! ⭐
#PeriodPoverty
ALT Ella Lambert smiles with a panorama of Bristol behind her.
ALT Ugandan women smile and hold folded Pacha Pads.
ALT Students learn to sew Pacha Pads at a workshop at the University of Bristol.
ALT Ella Lambert holds up a pink patterned Pacha Pad.
The Pachamama Project retweeted
A few months ago Ella Lambert came to talk to our Year 9 students about the fantastic @ThePachaProject. Inspired by the work that Ella was doing our students have since helped by sewing 30 of their own reusable sanitary pads that will be distributed in refugee camps this summer!
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Public restrooms are stocked with free toilet paper, so why not menstrual products?
Long considered a major taboo, cities are starting to address the problem of period poverty and provide free sanitary pads and tampons on public spaces and schools.
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Super honoured to be made finalist for @PioneersPost @SocComCap @NatWestGroup Star of the Future award for my work for @ThePachaProject and I’m in incredible company. Just logged into the awards ceremony now!
#WISE100
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We’re thrilled to announce that ‘Voices of Ukraine’ will now be used as an assigned text in the @BristolUni @BristolRuCz unit ‘Russia and the world’. Ukrainian voices and the Ukrainian refugee experience will now be part of the curriculum. We really couldn’t have hoped for more.
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Some photos from our premiere of ‘Voices of Ukraine’. It was an honour to interview these nine incredible people and even more of an honour to share their stories with the world. Thank you everyone for the amazing turn out and allowing us to raise £1,200 for Ukraine.
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Big thanks to @bigyellowss for providing us with storage for your amazing donations for refugees in the settlements in Lebanon, they’ll be heading to The Free Shop Lebanon in the new year 💛
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New partnership! April next year we will be heading to Pakistan to provide pads and run pad making workshops for over 1000 girls from Afghanistan who are missing school on a monthly basis and dropping out because they don’t have the sanitary products they need. #periodpoverty
Our 12 month plan out now!
Ukraine-Greece-Lebanon-Uganda-UK-Turkey-Pakistan all in a years work! Let’s get sewing 🪡🧵
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Our partnership with @ellalambertnow at @ThePachaProject is still happening and requests for pads are still coming in.
Donate today at pads4refugees.org.
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Another @ThePachaProject - @pads4refugees joint update:
A thank you from Dima, director of YMCA Moldova. This was a smaller project (82 packs of pads for about 39 families) but your support is making a big difference. 💙💛
#RefugeesWelcome #EndPeriodPoverty #Ukraine #Moldova
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Our @ThePachaProject - @pads4refugees partnership is still going strong! 5,212 packs of pads left London last week and are on their way to Lviv, Ukraine. That’s 46,320 individual pads.
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URGENT – Boris has announced that 50 people will be sent to Rwanda imminently, and it is sure more will follow.
It is ESSENTIAL that anyone who cares about refugees now does all they can to stop this.
Here’s how you can help:
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Student Ella Lambert tells #KayBurley what inspired her to travel to Poland to distribute period products to Ukrainian refugees, explaining that 'when you have any conflict, period poverty is inevitable'.
Live: trib.al/3FccfId
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Will be speaking on @SkyNews tomorrow about the work we’re doing at @ThePachaProject to support Ukrainian refugee women dealing with period poverty. Tune in to hear more!