Saalt Impact Report 2022

2022 Impact Report

Contents

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Letter from our CEO and Impact Program Manager

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2022 Impact Overview

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Our Ethos Our Method Our Impact Pillars

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2022 Project Highlights Dreams of the Tropical Youth PERIOD. Project Stree WISER Her International Honduras Child Alliance Maji Safi Group Style Her Empowered rePurpose Global Sustainable Coastlines Hawai’i

Pilot Programs Monthly Dignity Kujuwa Initiative Proyecto Pajaro

Support & Initiatives Saalt x Red Aspen Faces of Hope HER Pakistan Flood Victim Relief Flo Haven Borehole Build

Saalt’s Global Partnerships

At Saalt, we create sustainable period underwear, menstrual cups and discs that empower people to live their best lives simply and sustainably.

Cover photograph by Mwangi Kirubi. Photography contributed by Her International, Serang Monastery, DROTY, PERIOD., Project Stree, WISER, Honduras Child Alliance, Maji Safi Group, Style Her Empowered, Wakeful State, Kujuwa Initiative, Ampersand Studios, Faces of Hope, Flo Haven. Designed by Alani Calip.

Thank you.

2020 was an unprecedented year. From wildfire Australia and our Pacific Northwest to a pandem living across the globe, this year has taught us a ability to adjust to ever-changing circumstances Gates Foundation reported that in just 25 week from poverty alleviation to women’s equality ha years.” That regression hit hardest for our overs the social and economic toll of the pandemic ex in domestic violence, teen pregnancy, and reduc for women and girls.

Thank you.

What else can be done?

to tackle so that those in the

How do you address such

That’s the question we asked

countries we serve can have a

monumental challenges as a

ourselves at the start of 2022 to

menstrual cycle that no longer

small company with finite funds?

quantify whether the people we’d

inhibits academic education and

served to date had successfully

economic progress? In Kenya and

experienced what over 60% of

Uganda, there is a need for better

the menstruating world living in

access to adequate WASH (water,

Start by building latrines and

period poverty likely never will—a

sanitation, and hygiene) facilities

hand washing stations for

dignified monthly period.

to privately and hygienically care

schools in Uganda and clean

for menstrual needs. In Nepal

water storage facilities in Kenya.

In the five years since Saalt’s

and India, reproductive health

Start by funding the salary of

launch in 2018, we’ve worked with

awareness is stifled by restrictive

a full-time reproductive health

hundreds of partners in more

practices and taboos around

educator in Nepal that’s so

Each success was enabled and magnified by yo years have in store. who reached out to help identify needs and sup underserved communities around the world.

than 50 countries to donate over

menstruation. In Nicaragua,

successful that you add three

Ourdeepest deepest thanks, Our thanks,

50,000 long-lasting, reusable

training is needed to address

additional educators to serve

period products to help alleviate

proper use of inserted products.

new regions. Start by offering

period poverty in areas with the

And in Nigeria, the need is basic

dedicated training to Nicaraguan

most need. But is greater access

access to clean water for 29

staff that are empowered to

to quality period care enough?

million children.

mentor others. And start by

What other barriers are left

You simply start.

boreholes to provide clean

How do you move forward with optimism in the water for thousands of to Nigerian current events?

You keep your mission to cha and adapt.

We started 2020 with plans to fund children in a single community. around the globe and travel to support internat plans quickly shifted to respond to the most urg ing wildfire containment and advocates for raci Friends, this is what holistic period care to active duty military members and firefighters, and health care period progress looks likeproviders working t and lives. We donated over 12,000 menstrual cu when you, our passionate Saalthealth classe 34 countries, moved reproductive over 11,000 days of school for girls in need. We community, rally together to to create high-quality antibacterial masks for pa create lasting change.

Let’s start them to m hygiene needs who helped distribute often at the highest risk because of the lack of e doing more good together. We both PPE and healthcare.

can’t wait for what the next five

Cherie Hoeger | CEO & Impact Director Cherie Hoeger CEO & Impact Director

Danielle Burden Corporate Respons

digging the first of many

Rachel Axtman | Impact Program Manager

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Here’s What We Accomplished Together in 2022:

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17,670

82,842

Saalt Products Donated

Periods Served

271,800

56,364

Days of School Funded

Pounds of Cleanup Funded

4,184,104

281,810

Waste Diverted

Plastic Water Bottles Repurposed 4

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.

At Saalt, we believe that

in education, empowerment,

for example, we learned

people empowered to live

and sustainability.

that people receiving Saalt

their best lives can change the world.

With our impact partners, we provide sustainable period

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Saalt commits 2% of our

care and menstrual health

revenue to donate period

education to keep girls in

care to areas with the most

school and enable women to

need and help fund initiatives

pursue 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 fund 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

NEPAL

ITALY

Her International

Period.org

BANGLADESH

#HappyPeriod Equal Period Sustainable Coastlines Hawai’i

ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES INDIA

Rise Up Bequia

CAMBODIA

Project Stree

HONDURAS

PHILIPPINES D&G Kamavvaksan Association

VENEZUELA

Honduras

KENYA

Lahaie Luna Lezama Foundation

Child Alliance

Girl H

TOGO

NICARAGUA

WISER International

Style Her

COSTA RICA

UGANDA

Empowered (SHE)

FIRMC

DROTY

NIGERIA

Surge for Water

Flo Haven

PERU

TANZANIA Maji Safi

CAMEROON

Femme International

FIRMC

ZAMBIA ZIMBABWE

African Education Program

Sanitary Aid Zimbabwe Nhanga Trust

AUSTRALIA

LESOTHO

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Saalt’s Global Partnerships

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2022 Project Highlights Menstrual Health 12

Menstrual Health

Uganda

Alongside this valuable education,

rural community members.

Saalt donated Saalt Cups and

The provision of clean hygiene

Saalt Wear for each student to

facilities has helped reduce

provide long-term solutions for

the spread of bacterial diseases,

reliable period care.

and at the same time, provided dignified spaces that enable girls

However, a dignified period

to manage their periods safely.

experience can only be achieved with regular access to clean water. That’s why Saalt and DROTY have partnered to support WASH initiatives and expand the availability of clean water for

“With my Saalt Cup, I feel unapologetic about my period.”

communities. Since 2018, Saalt

Dreams of the Tropical Youth (DROTY) Dreams of the Tropical Youth

In 2022, Saalt helped fund the

(DROTY) is a youth-led

expansion of DROTY’s menstrual

nonprofit organization in rural

health and hygiene programming

Uganda with a vision for a

in 15 primary and secondary

community where vulnerable

schools. This program trained

rural adolescents and young

2,700 students in effective

adults lead healthy and

menstrual hygiene management

fulfilling lives.

and also covered topics like hand washing and protocols for disease prevention.

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has funded the construction of

—Jane N., DROTY Volunteer

four latrines, four hand washing

& Saalt Cup Trainer

facilities, and four incinerators for

2,700 students learned effective menstrual hygiene management, empowering them to make healthy, informed choices about their periods.

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Menstrual Health

United States

PERIOD. PERIOD is a global youth-

need, educational content about

fueled nonprofit that strives

menstruation, and tools

to eradicate period poverty

to advocate for menstrual

and stigma through service,

equity policy.

education, and advocacy.

Since 2019, Saalt has donated Did you know that 2 in 5

more than 7,000 Saalt Cups

Americans have experienced

to dozens of organizations

period poverty? Enter PERIOD.

and communities through our

Their secret sauce is an army of

partnership with PERIOD to help

hundreds of passionate PERIOD

lift people out of period poverty,

chapters that volunteer to provide

and we’re just getting started.

period products to those in

“When you give someone a Saalt cup and teach them how to use it correctly, they are immediately pulled from the abyss of experiencing period poverty.

A small device makes all the difference.”

—Kate Barker Swindell, PERIOD. Staff member.

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2 in 5 Americans have experienced period poverty.

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Menstrual Health

India

Project Stree Project Stree empowers Indian women by increasing awareness about hygiene habits and challenging stigmas around women’s health.

Fun fact: the word ‘stree’ is a

with individual households and

combination of three letters in

distributing vital period care to

Sanskrit: स् (S) + त् (T) + र् (R) =

people in need. In 2022, Project

स्त्री. Each letter stands for each

Stree’s first year returning to in-

of the three gunas, or qualities,

person workshops since 2019,

that are present in everyone

they distributed 200 Saalt Cups

and everything. These gunas

and 100 pairs of Saalt Wear,

are: sattvagun, the quality of

including to students at Pragya

goodness, tamogun, the quality of

Chakshu, a live-in center for blind

darkness, and rajogun, the quality

students. Project Stree had the

of passion. Our friends at Project

opportunity to expand access to

Stree explain, the word ‘stree”

their menstrual hygiene program

in itself conveys that women are

with the creation of workshop

sacred, comprising the essence

booklets in Hindustani Braille,

of nature.

which ensured that Pragya Chakshu students were able

Project Stree operates in

to get the same education and

numerous communities across

opportunities as other students

India, hosting menstrual health

who participate in Project Stree’s

workshops, talking about periods

programming.

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“The population we work with is usually not familiar with menstrual cups, but Saalt has allowed us to change that, as we have begun incorporating menstrual cups into our workshops, especially in schools.”

—Ria, Staff Member at Project Stree

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Menstrual Health

Kenya

100% graduation rate

Saalt and WISER’s partnership is

that go beyond basic menstrual

rooted in offering choice. WISER

management. Instead, they have

students were among the first

the opportunity to select their

of Saalt’s partners to try our

own method that works best

new absorbent underwear and

for their body and their lifestyle.

as of 2021 have the option to

Through this partnership, every

choose Saalt Cups, Saalt Wear,

WISER student has access

or reusable pads to manage their

to Saalt products, both when

periods. Having options available

they first arrive on campus and

on campus introduces a way for

throughout their years at WISER.

girls to try multiple products

WISER WISER works with girls

WISER goes above and beyond

to transcend poverty, HIV

for its students. They boast

and AIDS, and gender-

impressive outcomes as a result:

based violence by creating

WISER regularly sees a 100%

environments that empower

graduation rate for their students.

young women to drive

In rural Kenya, the average school

change in their communities.

graduation rate for girls is just 9%,

“The partnership with Saalt has ensured that our girls have access to quality products which otherwise they cannot afford due to the economic status of their families. This is truly a privilege.”

making WISER’s accomplishment Through innovative leadership

all the more impressive.

—WISER Staff

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Menstrual Health

Nepal

Her International Her International’s mission is

Nepal to distribute Saalt products

to empower “her” through

and educate women and girls

education.

about menstrual and reproductive health through the Her Health

Making informed health choices

program. In many cases, those

is a particular challenge for

women then become educators in

Nepali women and girls due

their own households and wider

to lack of awareness around

communities. In 2022, Saalt was

menstrual health and hygiene,

thrilled to support the expansion

limited sex education, gender-

of this program by funding

based disparities, and culturally-

the salaries of three additional

restrictive practices during

educators in Bhairahawa, Nepal.

menstruation that suppress

Since the beginning of our

open conversations around

partnership, this educational

reproductive health. Yet almost a

program has reached over 3,300

quarter of women in Nepal give

individuals with high-quality

birth before the age of 18 and

education and Saalt Cups!

nearly half before they are 20 years old. That’s why since 2019, Saalt has funded the salary of a talented educator, Pressa, who travels the rural Dang region of

3,300+ received high-quality education and Saalt Cups

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Menstrual Health

Nepal

Her International The education and mentorship

nearly every donation recipient

that on-the-ground staff at

continues to use their Saalt Cup

Her International provide to

as their long-term period care.

communities leads to impressive

To witness such incredible success

outcomes. Feedback collected

from our longest-standing partner

over the past four years from

fuels our passionate Saalt team

hundreds of their program

and drives us to expand this

participants shows a remarkable

ever-evolving partnership into

99% adoption rate, which means

the future.

“My Saalt Cup lets me have my period on my own terms. I don’t have to deal with disposing of or washing hygiene products that my family would see and then treat me differently while I menstruate.”

—Her Health Program Participant

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Education

Honduras

Honduras Child Alliance Honduras Child Alliance

Alliance has developed a strong

(HCA) provides educational

curriculum for young people

enrichment and healthy living

that will focus on menstrual

programs to children, teens,

health and hygiene and sexual

and adults in El Porvenir,

health and wellness through the

Atlantida, Honduras.

lens of cultural relevance and community-building.

Saalt is thrilled to have completed

As a result of strong relationship-

a successful pilot distribution of

building with parents, teachers

Saalt Cups with Honduras Child

and other local stakeholders

Alliance in 2022, where 60 young

who attended these education

people received Saalt Cups

sessions in 2022, HCA will expand

alongside their reproductive and

their efforts to reach grades 1–6,

menstrual health education. In

empowering even more young

cooperation with local Honduran

people with relevant and vital

educators and global sexual

health education in 2023.

health experts, Honduran Child

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Education

Tanzania

Maji Safi Group Maji Safi Group (MSG) promotes health and disease prevention in underserved and impoverished areas of Tanzania.

Through innovative and ever-

Alongside their in-school

evolving programming, MSG

programming, Maji Safi Group

works to empower women and

holds information sessions

girls to take the lead on making

with parents and teachers to

their communities healthier, more

educate them about the benefits

educated, equal, and resilient.

of menstrual cups and MHH education, paints menstrual

Since 2013, Maji Safi Group

hygiene education murals in

has delivered menstrual health

public spaces, and hosts a public

and hygiene training to 30,000

radio show to broadcast their

young women and girls and

stigma-breaking MHH education

distributed reusable menstrual

to rural communities and out-

products, including Saalt Cups,

of-school youth. This innovative

through their highly-successful

radio program started during

Community Health Educator

COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020, but

(CHE) and Youth MHH (Menstrual

was so successful that Maji Safi

Health & Hygiene) Lab programs.

Group plans to continue it long into the future!

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30,000 people with periods served 30

Education

Togo

Style Her Empowered (S H E) S H E creates sustainable

Saalt funded 1,500 educational

education and employment

scholarships for girls in 21

opportunities for girls and

different villages in Togo, where

women around the world

70% or more of the population

because they believe in a

lives on $1.90 or less per day. This

world where all girls and

year S H E students achieved

women can do more than

an impressive 99.9% pass rate

survive—they can flourish.

in their classes and national exams, compared to a regional

Style Her Empowered and Saalt

graduation average of 40%.

have partnered to support girls’ education, women’s employability

From all of us at Saalt:

training, and access to Saalt

Congratulations, S H E students!

Cups since 2019. In 2022 alone,

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Education

educational scholarships were funded for girls in 21 different villages in Togo.

Togo

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Education

Togo

Style Her Empowered (S H E) But S H E doesn’t stop there. They

full-time, 75% of whom have

also operate a social enterprise to

never been to school, with the

help fund their programming and

remaining 25% having only

offer safe, reliable employment

completed a couple of grades

for women who are often

of schooling. The employment

excluded from educational and

that S H E offers comes with

workforce opportunities. In

fair wages, comfortable working

2021, Saalt had the privilege of

environments, and limited

helping fund its expansion. As

working hours—privileges not

of 2022, S H E’s garment factory

often offered to women with

now employs 16 seamstresses

limited schooling.

Two employees purchased plots of land after being able to

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because they can

documentation,

the documentation.

understanding friend. We have come to Saalt with challenges,

have secured

questions, and ideas, and Saalt always responds with excitement,

loans to purchase

curiosity, and creativity. We could not be more grateful to have

motorbikes for

—Fawziyat Sani, S H E Development Director

own bank accounts now read and sign

and two more

how they do it.”

have opened their

complete the title “Partnering with Saalt is like partnering with a compassionate and

Saalt as a partner in our work. Not only for what they do, but for

$

Several women

themselves.

100% of S H E’s team members achieved adult literacy in French through their paid-to-learn education programming this year.

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Sustainability 36

Sustainability

United States

Sustainable Coastlines Hawai’i Sustainable Coastlines

In 2022, two Saalt team members

Hawai’i (SCH) inspires local

visited Sustainable Coastlines

communities to care for their

Hawaii to get a first-hand look

coastlines.

into their programs, mission, and impact. Our team left with

SCH fulfills this mission by

a better grasp of the breadth

hosting large-scale plastic

of SCH’s programming—from

cleanup events that engage

in-school programs, to beach

new people in their movement

clean-ups, to compost programs

and inspire them to change

that support local farms and

their behavior in ways that

food-insecure communities—

benefit our planet and all of its

and a much more nuanced

people. SCH also hosts ongoing

understanding of their deep

educational opportunities for

impact. Not only does Sustainable

students and local communities

Coastlines Hawai’i actively work

on the whole and partners with

to clean up plastic from our

local organizations on compost,

beaches and ensure that food

recycling, and community

waste and compostables are

engagement programs that

actually composted, but they

inspire both large-scale,

work tirelessly to educate people

systemic change and individual

of all ages about the power they

sustainability actions.

have to reverse the cycle of plastic waste and to care for our

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environment as a way of caring

Watch Saalt x SCH promote Plastic

for one another.

Free July on YouTube @saaltco 38

Sustainability

United States

Sustainable Coastlines Hawai’i The best part?

to Ma’i Movement had the

Hosting a collaborative cleanup

opportunity to select a Saalt Cup

event at Sandy Beach during

or pair of Saalt Wear and we

the visit! Together, we cleaned

were able to donate over 100

up over 1,000 pounds of waste

additional Saalt Cups. Talk about

from the beach, met dozens of

a win-win-win!

SCH volunteers and collected

45 billion pads and tampons are

30,740 lbs

thrown away annually

of waste was removed

waste items found

from beaches across the

on beaches.

disposable period care products

This year, Saalt was honored to

to be donated to our friends at

fund more large-scale beach

Ma’i Movement, a period poverty

cleanups through SCH, which

alleviation organization that

amounted to 30,740 lbs of waste

operates across the Hawaiian

removed from beaches across the

islands. Each person who donated

Hawaiian islands.

and are among the top

Hawaiian islands.

1 cup/disc prevents 3,000 disposable period care products from being 39

thrown out.

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Sustainability

Indonesia

25,624 lbs of plastic waste cleanup funded in Indonesia.

rePurpose Global

How do they do it?

rePurpose Global is the

offset double that footprint by

rePurpose Global focuses on

create buckets and water storage

world’s first plastic credit

investing in some of the most

investing in pre-existing waste-

vessels, reducing the plastic

platform dedicated to reducing

innovative plastic waste recycling

management programs that are

footprint of these producers by

waste, reviving lives, and

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.

restoring nature’s balance.

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Pilot Programs THE FUTURE OF SAALT’S IMPACT

Why Pilot Programs? important when there are long-

Beginning impact partnerships

products come with a learning

standing taboos around periods

with Pilot Programs fosters a

curve, we developed our Pilot

and period care products. After

learning environment where

Program model to ensure that

the pilot products are distributed,

cup recipients feel empowered

every donation is paired with the

data is collected to measure the

to choose the period care product

education and mentorship needed

adoption rate of the products

that works best for them, and

for individuals to find success

and to address any questions or

avoids assumptions about what

with Saalt products. It starts with

barriers that come up. Based on

products will be most popular or

an initial distribution of products

this data and overall learnings,

what methods of education and

that’s supported with educational

Saalt and the Pilot Partner decide

distribution will work best for

materials and one-on-one training

together on how to move forward

an individual, community, or

for program leaders. Piloting new

in a direction that is region-

cultural context.

products first with on-the-ground

specific and benefits as many

staff and educators is especially

people as possible.

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Because reusable period

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Menstrual Health

Canada

Monthly Dignity Monthly Dignity is a

shelters for people facing

volunteer-run organization

housing instability, and other

that tackles the causes and

service organizations that

consequences of period

provide support to people in

poverty and works toward

poverty in Montreal.

menstrual equity in Montreal.

Monthly Dignity reached out According to the Canadian

to Saalt this year in an effort to

government, 35% of people with

expand their reusable period

periods in Canada are making

care product options and offer

budgetary sacrifices to afford

community members a period

period care each month and 63%

care solution that does not

of them are missing activities

require monthly reliance on

due to lack of access to products

donations, but instead offers a

or facilities needed to manage

long-term solution to chronic

their periods. These numbers

period poverty. In 2022, Saalt

are even higher for people

and Monthly Dignity kicked

living in poverty and unstable

off our partnership with the

housing conditions. That’s why,

distribution of 50 Saalt Cups to

since 2017, Monthly Dignity has

people in need, primarily LGBTQ

distributed 190,000 period care

youth, and Monthly Dignity will

products to Canadians in need.

be distributing an additional 100

Monthly Dignity collaborates

Saalt Cups in early 2023!

35% of people with periods are making budgetary sacrifices to afford period care each month

63% of them miss out on activities due to lack of access to period care

with domestic violence shelters,

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Menstrual Health

Kenya

Kujuwa Initiative

employees in need. The

In 2023, Kujuwa Initiative will

seamstresses they employ

distribute these Saalt Cups in four

sew the reusable pads from

schools within the Mtwapa area

the scraps of the clothing they

of Kenya. As part of this pilot

produce and sell in the thriving

partnership, Saalt is thrilled to be

fashion economy in Kenya, and

able to fund WASH projects at

they do so at high wages, with

two schools in the Mtwapa area.

health benefits and access to

Both projects will create systems

life-skills training like financial

to access, store, and distribute

literacy education. In 2022,

clean water in the schools, with

Saalt and Kujuwa Initiative

the express purpose of getting

began a partnership to bring

clean water to bathrooms that

greater choice to the students

are private, so students can

they currently work with by

manage their periods both

offering Saalt Cups in addition

privately and hygienically. This

to their reusable pads, alongside

pilot is an upstream example of

strong menstrual hygiene and

how holistic funding addressing

Kujuwa Initative is a social

the international poverty line

reproductive health education.

menstrual health can create long-

enterprise tackling period

of less than $1.90 per day. At

As of December 2022, 500 Saalt

lasting impact beyond just female

poverty, menstrual hygiene

their clothing factory in Nairobi,

Cups are on their way to Kenya,

students to also benefit students

and rights in Kenya.

Kujuwa Initiative has stepped

awaiting the beginning of a new

of all genders, school teachers

in to help provide needed

school semester.

and staff, and the community they

In Kenya, disposable pads and

menstrual care by producing

serve with improved clean water

tampons are difficult to come

and distributing more than

distribution.

by and very expensive for the

10,000 reusable pads to schools,

33% of Kenyans that live below

communities, and their own

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Education

Nicaragua

Proyecto Pajaro Proyecto Pajaro is a

together to hold conversations

Proyecto Pajaro said that their

willing to dive into the education

volunteer-run women’s

about personal health and

program participants have shown

necessary to tackle the learning

empowerment organization

wellbeing and create artwork

immense curiosity and excitement

curve. In 2023, Proyecto Pajaro

in rural Nicaragua whose goal

and handicrafts that are then

about Saalt Cups, in particular

and Saalt plan to expand these

is to uplift women and girls

sold at markets, with the benefits

for their 10-year lifespan and 12-

workshops to younger community

with knowledge and skills

going exclusively to the artisans

hour wear time, and have been

members and pilot Saalt Teen Cups!

that build self-sufficiency.

themselves. As resources for women of all ages become more

Recent government restrictions

scarce, the work that Proyecto

on women’s organizations have

Pajaro does will continue to

forced many to close their

be vital for women’s progress.

doors, including those that

At Saalt, we know that there is

focus on women’s economic

real magic in bringing women

self-sufficiency and that serve

together to talk about their

victims of gender-based violence.

circumstances, share stories, and

Despite these challenging

build community.

circumstances, Proyecto Pajaro continues to serve women and

In 2022, Saalt and Proyecto Pajaro

girls by providing safe spaces to

piloted 60 Saalt Cups to women

share stories, build employability

and girls in their program during

skills, and access resources like

menstrual health education

reproductive health education.

workshops. Despite lack of

Each week, Proyecto Pajaro

familiarity with inserted period

invites women and girls to come

care products, volunteers at

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Support & Initiatives

Each year, Saalt hears from

whose lives have been impacted

organizations and individuals

by serious natural disasters.

seeking to address a need that

By 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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Menstrual Health

United States

10,000

Saalt x Red Aspen Red Aspen is a women-

to help spread awareness about

led brand with the mission

period poverty and drive the

to inspire women to stand

collaboration. For every nail dash

up, stand out, and stand

sold, Red Aspen would give a

together by uniting passion

portion of profits with the goal

with purpose.

to donate 10,000 Saalt Cups

Saalt Cups donated

through the collaboration.

What happens when two women-led brands get together

Together with thousands

to use their collective voices

of passionate independent

and influence to do good? The

ambassadors mobilized to

momentum is unstoppable.

create change for women, Red Aspen met their goal to fund

In early 2022, Jesse McKinney,

the distribution of Saalt Cups to

Genie Reese, and Amanda

impact partners in Africa, Asia,

Moore of empowered beauty

South America, and the United

brand, Red Aspen, reached out

States, improving the lives of

to see how they could support

10,000 women and girls in our

Saalt’s effort to alleviate period

global community. This is what

poverty. As a brand committed

a powerhouse collaboration

to empower women, they were

looks like!

ready to make a tangible impact for women across the world—a

Thank you, Red Aspen team, for

big one. They quickly got to

joining Saalt to change the world

work creating a limited-edition

for the better.

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Menstrual Health

United States

experience intimate partner

new clothing and personal care

violence in their lifetime. That’s

needs to move forward with

why Faces of Hope built a wrap-

dignity, including professional

around services facility in Boise,

clothing for job interviews and

Idaho that serves individuals from

court dates.

across the state.

Saalt also hosted a buy-one,

Saalt CEO Cherie Hoeger, Impact Program Manager Rachel Axtman and Cherie’s son, Tellson Hoeger at Faces of Hope in 2022.

Faces of Hope

give-one Domestic Violence

to support Faces of Hope’s

Awareness Month promotion,

emergency clothing and personal

which spread awareness about

item services, Hope’s Closet.

Domestic Violence Awareness

Victims of domestic violence

Month, supportive resources for

often arrive with only the clothing

victims, and resulted in more than

they are wearing. Hope’s Closet

250 Saalt products donated to

ensures everyone has access to

Faces of Hope.

Faces of Hope facilitates

people in the United States

10 million

a coordinated community

experience domestic violence

people in the United States

response to interpersonal

each year, 96% of whom identify

experience domestic

violence that enables victims

as women. That equates to about

to access all the services they

20 people per minute who are

violence each year.

need from a single location.

victims of violence by a family member or intimate partner.

According to the National Coalition Against Domestic

One in every three women here in

Violence, more than 10 million

Saalt’s home state of Idaho will

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In 2022, Saalt donated $10,000

96%

1 in

3

of whom

women in

identify as

Idaho will

women.

experience intimate partner violence in their lifetime.

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Menstrual Health

Pakistan

HER Pakistan Flood Victim Relief

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HER Pakistan is a youth and

From June through October of

vital access to menstrual hygiene

Saalt Wear to those in need of

women-led not-for-profit

2022, intense downpours caused

education and period care

immediate period care.

organization that empowers

devastating flooding across

supplies. Once it was safe to

As a result of this fundraiser,

individuals about menstruation

Pakistan, killing thousands of

operate again, Saalt contributed

HER Pakistan was able to get

through education, service

people, shutting down schools

$1,000 to the fund that allowed

emergency period care and other

and advocacy.

and businesses, and causing

HER Pakistan to restart their

hygiene supplies to the people

billions of dollars in damages.

programming on an emergency

who needed them most.

Prior to this catastrophic event,

basis, funding the travel of staff

HER Pakistan had been providing

to hard-hit areas to distribute

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Nigeria

Flo Haven Borehole Build: Nigeria Flo Haven empowers women

while eliminating the need for

in Nigeria through the

a middleman to regulate and

provision of menstrual health

maintain the pump. Boreholes

education and the provision of

are narrow shafts that are drilled

eco-friendly period products.

deep into the earth to access clean ground water that can

According to UNICEF, nearly

provide communities with

one third of children in Nigeria—

over 4,000 gallons of clean

about 29 million—lack access

water per day.

to clean water. Because clean

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gallons of clean water are provided per day by this borehole build

water is essential to use Saalt

From February through April,

Cups safely and hygienically, we

crews worked hard to build a

collaborated with our Nigerian

new borehole with an attached

partner, Flo Haven, to understand

hand pump that now serves

how to best address the need

thousands of people in the Agege

for the communities they serve.

metropolitan area with clean

The answer? Start by digging

water. Now, when Flo Haven

a borehole. When it comes to

distributes Saalt Cups in the

water access, boreholes are

region, they can also share

among the most efficient and

the gift of clean water to wash

economical ways to supply water

them with.

for drinking and crop irrigation

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Thank you.

At Saalt, we’re incredibly fortunate to work with collaborators, partners and community members like you to create lasting change for individuals and communities in our backyard and around the world. Thank you for starting this journey with us, and for everything that we’ve done together these past five years. We can’t wait to see what we get to do together in the next five.

With gratitude,

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The Saalt Team

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