this year’s challenge:
impact 5,000 women and girls through our
Asani Sanitary Napkin Program
By participating in the #PledgeYourPeriod movement, you can help us give 5,000 women a whole year’s supply of Asani sanitary napkins! All you have to do is:
START A FUNDRAISER
Start a fundraiser and join the initiative to raise money for our Asani Sanitary Napkin Program to improve the health and hygiene of women and children in rural India. Help us hit the goal of impacting 5,00 women and children!
WHAT IS PLEDGE YOUR PERIOD?
Pledge Your Period is an awareness campaign created by The Desai Foundation to strip away the shame around periods, helping to end the cycle of period stigma and poverty!
Our primary goal is to elevate the health and livelihood of the greater community of rural India, targeting women and children in particular to ensure sustainable growth. We believe everyone should have access to the three things that allow for them to dream beyond your circumstances - good health, the ability to work, and the fulfillment of an education.
participating in 2025
This year, our annual Pledge Your Period Campaign is focused on impacting 5,000 women and girls with a fundraising goal of $30,000 for our Asani Sanitary Napkin Program.
To hit this goal, we’re calling in friends, families, colleagues, and corporations to get involved! You can start your own peer-to-peer fundraiser here.
DID YOU KNOW?
But simply talking about menstruation helps to normalize it, creating greater awareness of the need for proper menstrual health education and products!
SUPPORTING THE ASANI SANITARY NAPKIN PROGRAM
The campaign also supports our Asani Sanitary Napkin program, which provides menstrual health education and products to women and girls in rural India who might not otherwise have them.
Through this program, we have:
Hear from some of the incredible women impacted by the Asani Sanitary Napkin program!
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