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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. 7
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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.” —Francoise, SHE Girls’ Education Director 26
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.
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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.
Menstrual Health
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
10
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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