Saalt Impact Report 2021

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2021 Impact Report

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If 2020 was the year of unprecedented change, 2021 was the year of extraordinary adaptation. The changes to our world and way of life did not revert back when we flipped our calendars and changed our clocks.

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Instead, we learned to assess new challenges, create solutions to meet real-time needs, and push on.

Saalt’s Impact partners adapted in ways large and small in order to

2020 was an unprecedented year. From wildfires that swept across continue work.

Women’s groups Nepal met online, Australia their and our Pacific Northwest to a in pandemic thatoutside affectedand daily living across the globe, year internet has taught us all resilience and the in despite lockdowns andthis spotty service.

Student groups ability to adjust to ever-changing circumstances. The Bill and Melinda Uganda distanced themselves to safely discuss menstruation and Gates Foundation reported that in just 25 weeks, progress in everything reproductive Educators in Tanzania tookbeen to radio airwaves from poverty health. alleviation to women’s equality had “set back 25 to years.”

That regression hit hardest for our overseas partners who deliver vital health information. FIMRC gave out Saalt Equalitysaw Masks the social and economic toll of the pandemic expose dramatic spikes along with Saalt Cups to ensure that each person attending workshops in domestic violence, teen pregnancy, and reductions in health services for women and classes and wasgirls. able to do so safely, even while facing the surges in the

COVID-19 pandemic this year.

How do you move forward with optimism in the wake of challenging current events? You keep to your mission to change lives for the better adapt. started 2020 with plans of to fund events projects Inand 2021, we We made our biggest impact any year in and Saalt’s history, around the globe and travel to support international partners. Those donating more than to 14,000 Saalt andurgent 800 pairs offrom our fundbrand new plans quickly shifted respond to Cups the most needs, ing wildfire containment and advocates for We racial justice, to our donating Saalt Wear across 23 different countries. also made biggest period care to active duty military members and veterans, menstruating donation of reusable Saalt Equality Masks, donating 45,320 masks to firefighters, and health care providers working tirelessly to save homes communities Peru, Greece and menstrual Nepal. Butcups we to didn’t stop there. and lives. We in donated over 12,000 organizations in Our 34 countries, moved reproductive health classes online, and funded commitment to empowering women and girls in need enabled 400 girls over 11,000 days of school for girls in need. We used our supply chain intoTogo and 20 girls inantibacterial Nepal to complete more of school create high-quality masks for63,800 partners with days urgent and employed full-time Style Her Empowered seamstresses in Togo. hygiene needs eight who helped distribute them to marginalized populations often at the highest risk because of the lack of economic resources for both PPE and healthcare.

Each stride forward has been enabled by the collective power of

Each success was enabled and magnified you, advocates, our Saalt community, passionate impact partners and you, ourbySaalt who fuel this who reached out to help identify needs and support our efforts to help underserved communities around the world.

ambitious undertaking to eradicate period poverty across the globe and

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2021 Impact Overview

Contents 2020 Impact Overview

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Our Purpose

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Our Ethos / Our Method

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Where We Work Donation to Australia

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Donations Firefighters Ourto Impact Pillars

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Rachel Axtman | Impact Program Manager

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Black Lives Matter

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Back to School Sustainable Coastlines

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Saalt’s Partnerships Teen Cups: byGlobal Teens for Teens

Reusable Mask Donation

Our warmest thanks,

Danielle Burden Corporate Responsibility Manager

Rumah Faye Honduras Child Alliance Ghetto Natives Initiative Nhanga Trust

Donations to Healthcare Workers

Our deepest thanks,

Cherie Hoeger CEO & Impact Director

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Pilot Programs

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lift communities in the process.

Cherie Hoeger | CEO & Impact Director

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Our Method Partners

Partners Equal Period Her International DROTY Wiser SHE rePurpose Global Sustainable Coastlines

Cover photograh by Payton McGriff. Photography contributed by Julie Gascon, Payton McGriff, DROTY, Jjumba Martin, Wiser, Mwangi A Kirubi.

Design contribution by Adelle Cron.

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Support & Initiatives

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Saalt x Ladygang The Loveland Foundation FIMRC Mercy Corps Purple Cup/Faces of Hope

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2021 IMPACT OVERVIEW

14,828

68,080

Cups Donated

Periods Served

3,440,166

$190,964

Waste Products Diverted

Dollars Saved

18,282

63,800

Pounds of Cleanup Funded

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Days of School Funded

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Our Method

As a certified B Corp, we use business as a force for good.

Empower and equip.

Cups did not have the health

These are ambitious words to

education they needed to use

encapsulate a holistic strategy

them successfully. In response,

to improve menstrual health

Saalt now funds the salary of

on a greater level than just

a local full-time educator who

donating products. We do this

is a valued member of our

by training in-country staff

extended Saalt team. Pressa

to ensure menstrual health

travels around the region

and hygiene education and

teaching better menstrual

mentorship are offered with

health and hygiene to women

every product donation, both

and girls, ensuring all are

to those receiving our products

equipped with the products

and their communities.

and education they need to manage their periods safely

Equipping starts with donating

and hygienically.

products to address urgent

Our Ethos

needs, then continuing to

Through our impact pillars,

tackle barriers to improve the

we seek to use our funds in

period experience. In Nepal,

the most mindful way to create lasting change.

Saalt commits 2% of our

their best lives can change

for example, we learned

revenue to donate period

the world. With our impact

that people receiving Saalt

care to areas with the most

partners, we provide

need and help fund initiatives

sustainable period care and

in education, empowerment,

menstrual health education

and sustainability.

to keep girls in school and enable women to pursue

At Saalt, we believe that people empowered to live 5

their dreams.

MENSTRUAL HEALTH

EDUCATION & EMPOWERMENT

SUSTAINABILITY

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Our Impact Pillars

MENSTRUAL HEALTH Everyone should have the right to a safe and dignified period. We empower individuals with knowledge and long-term solutions to improve their menstrual health.

This important work increases gender equality and starts conversations that bring awareness and break down social stigmas.

EDUCATION & EMPOWERMENT Access to period care keeps girls in school, breaking the cycle of poverty for generations. When women empowered by education lift their families and invest back into their local economy, they bring change to entire communities. To help enable this transformational change, we equip people with safe and reliable period care and funds girls’ educational scholarships and workforce development for women.

SUSTAINABILITY Every consumer who chooses reusables saves thousands of single-use period products from our landfills and oceans. We provide consumers with sustainable solutions to decrease waste through product design that is healthy for both body and planet, and by funding direct cleanup efforts.

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CANADA Her International Girl Up l’École Nikanik

ENGLAND Suffolk House

USA

ITALY

Period.org

BANGLADESH

I Support the Girls Equal Period Ma’i Movement

ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES Rise Up Bequia

CAMBODIA

INDIA Project Stree

HONDURAS

AWHO

VENEZUELA

Honduras

Lahaie Luna Lezama Foundation

Child Alliance

NEPAL

KENYA

Her International

Outreach to the World

TOGO

NICARAGUA

WISER International

Style Her

COSTA RICA FIRMC

UGANDA

Empowered (SHE)

FIRMC

Flo Haven

PERU

INDONESIA

DROTY

NIGERIA

Rumah Faye

TANZANIA Maji Safi

CAMEROON

Femme International

FIRMC

ZAMBIA ZIMBABWE

African Education Program

Sanitary Aid Zimbabwe Nhanga Trust

AUSTRALIA

LESOTHO

Saalt’s Global Partnerships

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A HIGHLIGHT

Saalt Impact Partners In 2021, we committed 2% of our revenue to donate period care to regions with the most need, and help fund initiatives in 23 countries.

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Equal Period “It has been my experience that many single mothers choose between feminine products and things like food for themselves. When experiencing homelessness, something like a reusable period cup is an amazing resource.”

—Program Manager at a California homeless shelter

In 2021, Equal Period

period products free in

expanded their period care

public schools, community

product distribution across

colleges, and universities

the United States to include

in California. The bill

seven new states and has

passed unanimously in the

worked to eradicate period

legislature and was signed

poverty through education

into law in October.

Working to eradicate period poverty in the United States, Equal Period is a youth-run organization based in California’s Bay Area that combats the stigma around menstruation and donates period products to those in need nationally.

and advocacy. Equal Period created a customized

Since their founding in 2018,

educational booklet on

Equal Period has distributed

menstruation for the

Saalt Cups and other period

recipients of their donated

care products to over 2,000

period care products and

individuals around the United

threw their support behind

States and plans to expand

AB-367, a bill that will make

their efforts internationally.

Since 2020, Saalt has donated hundreds of Saalt Cups each month to Equal Period for distribution to shelters that serve people experiencing homelessness and victims of domestic violence.

Menstrual Health

United States

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Her International 2021 began with the first delivery

lower learning curve than inserted

pivot their efforts to best meet

that managing their period was

of Saalt Wear to rural Nepal to

products, Saalt Wear became a

the needs of women across

not an added stressor. Instead,

meet the needs of a group of

welcome solution to improve the

Nepal. Among country-wide

they told Her International’s

women with developmental and

lives of these women and their

lockdowns, school closures,

staff how they now have less

physical disabilities. For those

caretakers. Navigating another

empty store shelves, shuttered

period pain, and a safe and

living with a disability, monthly

year of community lockdowns

businesses, and limited internet

accessible way to manage their

period maintenance and inserted

and economic hardship

access, Her International’s Saalt

period with confidence.

period care products can be a

exacerbated by the COVID-19

Cup recipients shared the relief

significant challenge. Because

pandemic, Her International

period underwear has a much

continued to work tirelessly to

Menstrual Health

Nepal

“Saalt’s menstrual cup has helped our participants thrive and tackle the challenges COVID has placed in their way!”

—Kate Phelps, Program Director at Her International

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700 Saalt Cups

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Saalt Wear

DROTY continued to offer their

The provision of Saalt Cups and

supportive services virtually in

clean hygiene facilities have

2021, but so few households

helped reduce the spread of

have access to the internet that

bacterial diseases, and at the

they were not able to reach

same time, provided dignifying

all of the youth they do in a

safe spaces to enable girls to

typical year. DROTY is focused

manage their periods. Saalt

on fundraising and capacity-

is thrilled to announce the

building, with the goal of

funding for construction of

making a large investment into

another latrine for the DROTY

community internet access and

campus this year! The new

technology to be able to reach

latrine is expected to be ready

more young people regardless

for use by mid-2022.

of the continuation of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dreams of the Tropical Youth (DROTY) Since 2018, Saalt has funded the construction of three latrines, Dreams of the Tropical Youth

The Saalt team was thrilled to

four handwashing facilities and four incinerators for DROTY

(DROTY) is a youth-led nonprofit

meet DROTY’s founder and

students, along with the donation of 700 Saalt Cups and 50

organization in rural Uganda

director, Timothy Arnold, who

pairs of Saalt Wear.

whose mission is to uplift the

traveled from Rakai, Uganda to

health, well-being and socio-

Boise, Idaho to visit the Saalt

economic standards of living for

office. He shared his firsthand

“Saalt has managed to help us to create a safe environment

vulnerable youth.

experience growing up in Uganda,

for the young girls in our community through providing

the challenges women face in

sustainable underwear and menstrual cups. This has enabled

his country, and his vision for the

our community to have girls stay in school.”

future of the organization.

—Josephine Namirimu, Volunteer & Saalt Cup Trainer

Menstrual Health

Uganda

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WISER “Working with Saalt is like adding more members to your team. This is an organization that really believes in listening and speaking with integrity and doing so while keeping their eyes on the prize: healthier, happier, empowered women all over the world.”

100%

graduated and accepted into a program for postsecondary education.

—Zack Fowler, Wiser Executive Director 2021 was a banner year for the

In rural Kenya, the average school

girls at WISER school in Muhuru

graduation rate for girls is just

Bay, Kenya. At the onset of the

9%, making this accomplishment

pandemic, the campus of 400

all the more impressive. Saalt

girls went fully remote, creating

extends a huge congratulations to

a massive disruption in their

the 2021 WISER school graduates

education. After 18 months

and to the outstanding educators

of upheaval and uncertainty,

who supported those students!

moving from in-person learning, to remote, and back again,

Saalt and WISER’s partnership

WISER’s senior class successfully

has always been about choice.

graduated over the summer.

Having Saalt Cups, and now Saalt Wear, available on campus

This is the eighth class of girls

introduces a way for girls to

in a row to graduate 100% of its

transcend the basic concern of

senior class and the first to have

menstrual management and move

In 2021, Saalt donated 350 Saalt Cups and 240 pairs of

100% of students accepted into

toward being able to select their

Saalt Wear to the students at WISER, ensuring all new and

a program for post-secondary

own method that works best for

returning students have access to period care.

education.

their body and their lifestyle.

Menstrual Health

Kenya

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28,000+

received menstrual care training.

Maji Safi Group Maji Safi Group (MSG) provides

Rachel at Maji Safi Group

communities in the Lake

says that the cup education

Victoria region of Tanzania

they’ve received from Saalt

with holistic WASH (water,

staff has helped Community

sanitation and hygiene) and

Health Educators host

personal health education,

informational sessions with

access to school and health

teachers, students, and their

supplies, and community

guardians. “When parents and

leadership opportunities for

teachers receive the same

young women and girls.

education about the benefits and challenges of menstrual

Since 2013, Maji Safi Group

cups as the students, they are

has delivered menstrual

more likely to support and encourage their girls to use

health and hygiene training to more than 28,000

their menstrual cups.” Saalt

young women and girls and

loves this holistic approach to

distributed reusable menstrual

education. We know that the

products to them, including

inclusion of whole communities

Saalt Cups, through their

and households can help to

innovative Community Health

reduce stigma around periods

Educator (CHE) program.

community-wide.

Education

Tanzania

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This has been a year of immense learning, growth, and change for Style Her Empowered: • Doubled their employees in Togo from 12 women in early 2020 to 31 employed in 2021.

• Expanded its impact geographically in 2021 from one semi-rural town served to 21 rural communities served.

• Distributed 1,000 menstrual kits and provided menstrual health education to 1,200 girls and women.

• Opened a sewing cooperative in a rural village, Kpove. This cooperative will be leading SHE’s fabric recycling program and converting several thousand pounds of fabric scraps into usable products, like reusable pads, for girls and women.

• Through the new cooperative, eight women who were previously unemployed gained full-time, salaried employment with benefits.

Style Her Empowered (SHE) Style Her Empowered and Saalt

SHE’s first women’s cooperative

have partnered to support

in the remote village of Kpove.

girls’ education, women’s

The result? SHE’s students

employability training, and

achieved the highest pass rate in

access to Saalt Cups since 2019.

the program’s history. Despite the nine-month disruption to their

99% of SHE’s

In 2021, Saalt made our

school year,

largest impact investment to

students passed their classes

date, funding 166 educational

and are continuing on to the next

scholarships for girls and piloting

grade level.

Education

Togo

SHE grew from 180 students in 2019 to 1,500

students

in the 2020-2021 school year.

“I am living my best life with the Saalt cup.

This year, I taught three more women on our team how to use the Saalt cup so they can live their best lives too.”

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5,000

pounds of plastic waste cleanup funded in Indonesia.

rePurpose Global

How do they do it?

rePurpose Global is the world’s

offset double that footprint by

rePurpose Global focuses on

create buckets and water storage

first plastic credit platform

investing in some of the most

investing in pre-existing waste-

vessels, reducing the plastic

dedicated to reducing waste,

innovative plastic waste recycling

management programs that are

footprint of these producers by

reviving lives, and restoring

programs around the world.

well-adapted to local cultural

88% compared to when they

contexts. In Kenya, rePurpose

use virgin plastics. We love

As a result of this partnership, in

Global’s partner Taka Taka

that rePurpose invests in local

Saalt works with rePurpose Global

2020 Saalt became the world’s

recycles plastic waste by turning

innovators and economies to

to calculate our annual plastic

first period care brand to certify

it into small plastic flakes that are

fund programs that thrive in each

footprint and fund initiatives that

as Plastic Negative.

then sold to manufacturers to

unique context.

nature’s balance.

Sustainability

Indonesia

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This past year, Saalt connected

managing cycles through local

SCH with Ma’i Movement,

foods and movements local to

an organization working

the islands, such as Hula.

to fight period poverty in Hawaii and provide all youth

Moving forward, Sustainable

with culturally-specific

Coastlines Hawaii and Ma’i

menstrual health education

Movement are partnering on

and sustainable period care

an educational space that

products. Ma’i Movement

will offer opportunities for

recently published an

all to learn about individual

educational guide geared

and community steps to

towards Hawaiian youth; it

reduce our plastic footprint,

includes the basics about

Ma’i Movement’s educational

menstruation and hormonal

guides and beach cleanup

cycles, as well as tips for

opportunities.

Sustainable Coastlines Hawai’i & Ma’i Movement What started out as an Instagram

communities to care for their

DM has quickly become a

coastlines. They fulfill this mission

strong partnership, resulting in

by hosting large-scale plastic

thousands of pounds of plastic

cleanup events alongside ongoing

waste being removed from

educational opportunities for

Hawaii’s beaches.

students and local communities on the whole, inspiring both

Sustainable Coastlines Hawaii’s

large-scale change and simple

(SCH) mission is to inspire local

sustainable swaps any individual can take.

Sustainability

United States

1 Saalt Cup saves

1 pair of Saalt Wear

3,000 pads and

saves over 1,000 pads

tampons from

and tampons from

landfills.

landfills.

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Pilot Programs THE FUTURE OF SAALT’S IMPACT

Saalt Impact Pilot Programs

Beginning impact partnerships

include an initial distribution of

with Pilot Programs fosters a

products along with educational

learning environment where cup

support for program leaders

recipients feel empowered to

and participants. Generally,

choose the period care product

Saalt recommends piloting new

that works best for them, without

products with on-the-ground

assuming what products will be

staff and educators, in particular

most popular or what methods

if there are long-standing taboos

of education and distribution

around periods and period care

will work best for an individual,

products. After the pilot products

community, or cultural context.

are distributed, data is collected and shared with Saalt. Based on this data and overall learnings, Saalt and the Pilot Partner decide together on how to move forward in a direction that benefits as many people as possible.

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Rumah Faye Rumah Faye’s mission is to

high-risk communities across

save Indonesian children from

Indonesia to prevent further

human trafficking, violence

instances of human-trafficking

and exploitation.

and exploitation of young people. Faye says that none

When she was just twelve

of the youth they work with

years old, Faye Simanjuntak

are able to afford disposable

founded the organization

period care products on a

after learning how pervasive

monthly basis.

sex trafficking and youth sexual exploitation is in her

Together, we hope to learn

home country. For seven

more about what products

years, Rumah Faye has

are most useful to young

offered physical, mental, and

people in the region and, in

emotional safety to young

particular, young people who

people who have been victims

may have experienced sexual

of human trafficking and other

trauma. The ultimate goal of

kinds of violence. They provide

this partnership is to use these

safe housing, psychotherapy,

learnings to expand access to

education and workforce

reusable period care products

development opportunities

for all vulnerable youth in

to over 150 youth at their

Indonesia to give them a

safe house. Rumah Faye

choice in how they manage

also conducts workshops

their periods.

and community outreach in

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Indonesia

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For those who do attend

In September, Saalt hosted

school, girls’ absence rates

a virtual training session

quadruple from 7% to 28%

with nurses, educators and

during their periods. In Jinja

interested students about Saalt

City, the average household

Cups. One of the nurses then

annual income is $100 USD

hosted another training session

and a small package of pads,

in the local language, Lusoga,

if you can find them, costs

for young people whose

about $2. If a family only has

English is limited. Saalt and GNI

one person who menstruates in

hope to expand this program

their household, they would be

in 2022 and provide reusable

spending more than 20% of the

period care products to all.

household income on period care—as much as 50% if there are two people with periods

Ghetto Natives Initiative The Ghetto Natives Initiative

(water, sanitation and hygiene)

(GNI) provides youth and

education. Uganda’s Ministry of

whole households experiencing

Education reported in 2019 that

poverty in Jinja City, Uganda

nearly one in every four Ugandan

with education around disease

girls between the ages of 12 and

prevention and personal health;

18 will drop out of school once

they focus on HIV prevention,

they begin menstruating.

menstrual health, and WASH

living in a home.

7%

of girls are typically absent from school.

28%

of girls are absent from school when they’re on their period.

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Uganda

(an increase of 4x)

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Honduras Child Alliance Celebrations are in order: Saalt

programs to children, teens, and

sexual health and wellness. We

education and development

Cups have landed in Honduras for

adults in El Porvenir, Atlantida,

are proud to share that, beginning

program model that can be

the first time!

Honduras. In cooperation with

in 2022, Saalt Cups will be offered

adapted for communities across

local Honduran educators and

as an option for period care for

Latin America with a focus on

Saalt is thrilled to begin piloting

global sexual health experts,

program participants and their

reaching rural communities who

Saalt Cups with Honduras Child

Honduran Child Alliance is

household members.

have historically lacked access to

Alliance. Honduras Child Alliance

developing a curriculum for

(HCA) provides educational

young people that will focus on

Saalt and HCA are working to

enrichment and healthy living

menstrual health and hygiene and

develop a replicable community

Education

Honduras

formal education and period care products.

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Nhanga Trust Nhanga Trust was founded

cups in the past through

in 2013 with the mission

grants, which were very

to provide period care

popular but sporadic in their

products and menstrual

availability. She reached out

health education to women

to Saalt in 2021 with the hopes

in rural Zimbabwe. Today,

of establishing a consistent

Nhanga Trust employs six

stream of donations so she

full-time seamstresses who

can give the women in her

produce reusable menstrual

community choices for how

pads that are distributed by

they manage their periods,

Nhanga Trust’s founder, Chipo,

and we were thrilled to

alongside vital menstrual

answer the call.

health and personal hygiene education.

Saalt and Nhanga Trust are currently piloting 100 Saalt

Nhanga Trust hosts menstrual

Cups with students at rural

health education sessions at

schools outside of Harare,

rural schools, speaking with

beginning with influential

students after school about

students who can help break

the when, what, and why

taboos and educate their peers

of periods and distributing

on the benefits of menstrual

period care packages at each

cups, with the hope of growing

session. Chipo has acquired

this program significantly over

small numbers of menstrual

the next few years.

Education

Zimbabwe

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Support & Initiatives

Each year, Saalt hears from

whose lives have been impacted

organizations and individuals

by serious natural disasters. By

seeking to address a need that

donating to these initiatives,

may be immediate, emergent,

Saalt is able to collaborate with

or on a smaller-scale than some

partners to pivot to meet the

of our ongoing partnerships. In

diverse needs of our local and

the past, these initiatives have

global communities, while leaning

included support for healthcare

on the true experts to ensure

workers and wildland firefighters,

these resources are used to make

as well as responding to the

the greatest impact possible.

period care needs of those

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Saalt x The Ladygang What do you get when New

joined a special podcast

York Times Bestselling authors

episode on International

and celebrity-brand, The

LadyGang Day to share about

LadyGang, team up with Saalt

sustainable period products

to talk about period poverty?

and grow awareness around

Real, unfiltered conversation,

period poverty.

2,617 Saalt Cups

and a big impact for women and girls.

The result?

In 2021, The LadyGang’s Keltie

Over 2,000 Saalt Cups

Knight, Becca Tobin and Jac

were donated to students and

Vanek pledged to donate one

community members at Wiser

Saalt Cup for every purchase

International and Equal Period

of their newest fall apparel

on behalf of The LadyGang!

collection sold from September

Thank you, LadyGang, for using

through December 2021.

your platform to educate so many about period poverty and

To commemorate the

for teaming up with Saalt to

partnership, Saalt CEO and

help alleviate it.

Co-Founder, Cherie Hoeger,

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United States

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Purple Cup / Faces of Hope According to the National

For every Mountain Iris Saalt

Coalition Against Domestic

Soft Cup that was purchased

Violence, more than 10 million

on October 21st, we committed

people in the United States

to donating one to our friends

experience domestic violence

at Faces of Hope, a local Idaho

each year, 96% of whom

organization offering wrap-

identify as women. That

around supportive services

equates to about 20 people

to our neighbors who have

per minute who are victims of

experienced intimate partner

violence by a family member

violence. In all, Saalt donated

or intimate partner. One in

200 cups to Faces of Hope.

every three women here in Saalt’s home state of Idaho will

Together, we can move

experience intimate partner

mountains.

violence in their lifetime.

In support of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Saalt did our part to support survivors of domestic violence:

Menstrual Health

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million

people in the U.S alone experience domestic violence each year.

Boise, Idaho

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The Loveland Foundation In honor of Juneteenth 2021, a

Foundation is a 501c3 that

celebration of liberation from

provides therapy for Black women

slavery in the United States, Saalt

and girls and helps to combat

donated $2,000 to support The

the intergenerational trauma and

Loveland Foundation. Founded by

ongoing systemic impacts from

writer and activist Rachel Cargle

the legacy of slavery in the United

(@rachel.cargle), the Loveland

States.

United States

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The remote location of the town

cases surged in the country. Saalt

and cost of masks and other

answered the call with a donation

protective equipment left the

of 1,000 Saalt Equality Masks to

town at high risk as Coronavirus

the Juancayo community.

Mercy Corps - Lesbos

Mask Donations

Due to its proximity to the

close quarters exacerbated the

Turkish coast, the island of

risk of the COVID-19 pandemic,

Lesbos, Greece, is one of the

leading to dangerous outbreaks

most popular destinations in the

among workers and residents

region for families seeking asylum

alike.

from the Middle East. Sometimes

FIMRC - Peru In June of 2021, Saalt received

in partnership with FIMRC in

a request from our longtime

previous years to provide Saalt

friends at The Foundation for

Cups to communities in Uganda

International Medical Relief of

and Costa Rica.

Children (FIMRC), a U.S.-based nonprofit organization dedicated

This time, FIMRC was reaching

to providing healthcare to

out to see if Saalt could provide

medically underserved families

reusable face masks to Juancayo,

worldwide. We have worked

a town in rural Peru.

known as “the gateway to

In the summer of 2021, Saalt

Europe,” Lesbos houses

donated over

thousands of people who have

Equality Masks to Mercy Corps,

made the dangerous sea crossing

one of the global aid and

from Turkey as they await the

development organizations

outcome of their asylum claim.

supporting asylum seekers on

The asylum process is notoriously

the island. Saalt Equality Masks

slow and bureaucratic, leading to

will support aid workers and

an extensive backlog. Before it

asylum seekers alike for the next

was destroyed in a fire in 2020,

year. Saalt is grateful to be able

the Moira refugee camp, built to

to support the work of Mercy

house 3,000 people, was housing

Corps and the safety of people

more than 14,000. Among many

seeking asylum.

30,000 Saalt

other challenges, living in such

Peru & Greece

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