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The Pachamama Project CIO

Description

The Pachamama Project is a UK charity building a network of volunteers to sew reusable period pads to tackle global period poverty - to keep girls in school, women in work and to restore dignity. Founded in 2020 by then student Ella Lambert, the UK charity has, to date, distributed 180,000 pads (eight pads per beneficiary) that will last at least five years. Distributions have so far taken place in Greece, Italy, Latvia, Lebanon, Pakistan, Morocco, South Sudan, Syria, Turkiye, Uganda, the UK, Ukraine and the USA. Volunteers sew from home or in friendship groups and send the pads to HQ in Essex for checking and shipping to partners on the ground who manage the distributions along with menstrual health and hygiene education. We are always in need of new volunteers as there is a long waiting list of organisations that want to partner with us to get our pads to the communities they support.