MenstruAction is committed to helping people in Leipzig who suffer from period poverty. The term period poverty refers to the phenomenon when menstruating women do not have enough money to buy period products or do not have access to information about menstrual hygiene, sanitary facilities and/or waste disposal.

For this reason, our team has set up donation boxes in several branches of the dm drugstore. The menstrual products can be donated directly at the exit of the dm drugstore after shopping. The collected products are then collected by our team and distributed to homeless organizations. The aim here is also to promote awareness of this topic in society.

The MenstruAction project now also receives EU funding because it was accepted as a solidarity project. It is planned that several coaches from FAIRbund will also continuously support our group. Currently our MenstruAction team consists of volunteer members who are all between 18 and 30 years old. Together we want to achieve a lasting reduction in period poverty in Leipzig. While period poverty is a global problem, there is something we can do to improve the situation in Leipzig.