‘For That Time’ helps women in poverty across Long Island Organization

Provides Basic Necessities To Those In Need

By JoRDAN VAlloNE jvallone@liherald.com

When Ryann Jordan, a senior at Calhoun High School in Merrick, learned that there are countless women who can’t afford or don’t have access to basic necessities, like feminine hygiene products, she quickly sprang into action.

Realizing that something needed to be done, Jordan, 18, founded the organization “For That Time” to address these needs and make a difference in her local community.

Her sister, Lindsay, a student at Cornell University, told her that many women living in poverty across the U.S. struggle to find not only food and other items from pan - tries, but also hygiene products.

“In one of her classes, she told me that they talked about period poverty, and I hadn’t really heard about it before,” Jordan said. “I looked more into it and noticed that it was like a really big problem in the world, and it wasn’t really being shared, to my knowl -

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