Stories of those who made a change
Vivi Lin - Lessons from a Global Activist
“I would say I started my activism with my first period, at the age of 12.”
- Vivi Lin, WithRed
The story of how the owner of a renowned Whiskey Bar in Utrecht started providing period products for his guests…
“We're not providing a complimentary thing and we don't want medals and glories for it. Menstruation is a normal thing and is something that is as normal as being a human being. ”
— Said Bijary
The story of a student union of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam that made period products accessible to all students
“In a perfect world, this isn't an individual responsibility”
— Pieter van Rossum, SRVU
The story of how the two German students who didn’t find period products in their Uni bathrooms and decided to take matters into their own hands!
“Corvin and I founded the startup Periodically together. We developed dispensers for tampons and pads and now offer them together with menstrual products.”
— Katharina Weißig
The story of how period poverty made it onto the Amsterdam Municipality's agenda!
After approving a pilot project with a 50,000 budget in November 2022, the Amsterdam Municipality approved a bill to address period poverty systematically on March 16th, 2023.
We talked with some of the incredible change-makers behind this project!