Interact Club of GHS to distribute Feminine Care Items

The Interact Club of St. Vincent Girls’ High School has identified several institutions to be recipients of its recent Feminine Product Drive that is aimed at assisting young, disadvantaged females throughout St. Vincent who struggle to afford essential feminine care.

Interactors donating Feminine Products to GHS Principal Mrs. LaToya DeRoche John

In a release, the club said the items collected will be donated to the Our Lady Of Guadalupe Home for Girls; the Salvation Army; the Lewis Punnett Home; as well as the Counselling Department of the St. Vincent Girls’ High School to assist several students in need.

The project aimed to collect a variety of feminine care items, including sanitary napkins, hygiene products, body care essentials, and oral hygiene products, items which the club said are often taken for granted by many as being essential for the health and well-being of young women but which many cannot afford.

Donation boxes were placed at several locations such as Massy Stores, Kingstown; Coreas Hazells City Store; and The St. Vincent Co-Operative Bank, which served as drop off points for donations that were to be made outside of the school’s compound.

Items donated included toiletries; such as toothbrushes, toothpastes, toilet paper, soaps, feminine hygiene products; sanitary napkins, tampons, liners, menstrual cups, menstrual tablets and body care essentials; such as lotions, deodorants, body washes, shaving creams, rags and combs.

The club has expressed its gratitude for the overwhelming response from the public, businesses and school community to its Feminine Product Drive which was undertaken during the month when there is greater focus on women.