News and Updates
news & updates
Our Friendship Village Tempe packing parties are some of our favorites! This afternoon we packed 545 pad bags. These women are our Pad Warriors!!
Lat night at Guardian Angel’s Maundy Thursday mass, we did a service project of unboxing pads and tampons for Women4Women Tempe. It only took about 10 minutes, but we unboxed enough products to fill 6 white trash bags!
I love these people!❤️
We pack bags with students at Mt. Pointe High School every month, and today we had two classes help; they packed 265 pad bags!!
Also on Saturday, we packed bags with the book club ladies at Tap That Downtown. Amy Hansen and I also had a bite of lunch there, which was really good. Our group packed 255 pad bags, then we were all ready to leave because we were on the patio and it was HOT! They are a wonderful group, and I hit the names of two books the recommend. Thanks to Summer Benton Nickerson for organizing the party!
Saturday morning we were invited to participate in a Health and Wellness event hosted by Phoenix City Council member Kesha Hodge Washington, and we met a lot of amazing people who help people. Amy Hansen and Sierra helped explain what we do and give out flowers! A very good morning!
Thursday evening we packed bags with students who are part of the African Student Association at ASU, and they packed 360 pad bags. We love packing with our ASU friends, and we had a lot of fun at this packing party. Thanks to Barbara Mishler, Larry Mishler, Kelly and Sierra for helping. Naomi, one of the students is going to start helping with our ASU parties.
It was a busy, but wonderful day!
Thursday afternoon we packed bags at ASU with the National Residence Hall Honorary, and it was hot! Not only did the folks pack over 200 bags, we each got a free Hawaiian Shaved Ice!! Thanks to Cara (one of our ASU volunteers, and totally wonderful, and Shannon, who always makes life more fun! ).Special thanks to Sarah East for organizing this event.
We also want to thank the Mesa National
CharityLeague for their donation! We absolutely rely on donations, so these products will be given out to women next week! Thanks to Candace Spangler for delivering!
We want to thank Mark Dye Ministries and Rim
Food Pantry for their generous donation of pads, tampons and liners. We distribute bags to them, so they are sharing with us. They are opening a cooling center on May 1, so they will need more bags this summer. A partnership. Our community.
Mia and Ava had a feminine hygiene drive at Basha, their high school last month, and we packed half of their donations in our bags, but they wanted the rest to be donated in another way. This morning we took their donations to Native Health, and the items will be helicoptered into the Grand Canyon and dropped to the Havasupai Tribe. We met Britney Joe, who will supervise the transfer. The items will be delivered next week, and we were promised pictoyed, which we will share. Kinda cool!
