Status of Women committee  All right. I have 30 seconds and a community full of a lot of needs. I can say that what keeps Clara and I up at night is that we are constantly getting, especially over the past year, new requests for new partners. It feels as though we've been getting requests on an almost bi

Status of Women committee  I'll go ahead quickly about how we're funded. First of all, we're not really funded. We get zero dollars. We function almost exclusively on in-kind donations from companies and from the community. A high school recently did a fundraiser for us, and that's the most money we've t

Status of Women committee  We haven't quite been informed about the eligibility criteria. We are on the eligible list. We don't have registered charity status, but we are a registered non-profit. That's a barrier for a lot of grassroots organizations, because the process to get that status is very expensiv

Status of Women committee  I think it comes back a lot to the opportunity costs, losing education and not being able to go to school. I think we also have to think about health policies. We severely underfund women's health research, so you have people with endometriosis or other menstruation-related ill

Status of Women committee  Good afternoon, members of the committee, and thank you very much for inviting us to contribute to your study of menstrual equity in Canada. Our names are Clara and Hayley, and we're the co-directors of Monthly Dignity, which is a non-profit organization tackling period poverty