Marking International Women's Day - March 8, 2016

Follow up!  Rebekah and Razan were interviewed on CBC Information Morning today March 24, 2016,  Simply an amazing job, girls!  

click here for the CBC Information Morning audio link

Our Sacred Heart High School Global Citizens students have marked International Women’s Day (Tuesday, March 8) in a unique way. Their week-long drive for feminine hygiene products has received extremely positive reactions from the girls’ high school.

In their planning this year, the Global Citizens students all agreed they wanted to address a real need within the community.  They discussed the best way to raise awareness among the students about this year’s the theme for International Women’s Day: “Pledge for Parity.” One of the pledges is “to help women and girls achieve their ambitions.”

In the group’s discussion, Rebekah Howlett (Grade 12), suggested a drive for feminine hygiene products as this need is not always given attention.  We often hear about food drives.  What about girls and young women who can’t afford products we take for granted as necessities?  Anisha Rajaselvam (Grade 7) pointed out that in some places girls’ education is affected because they can’t even attend school when they are having their period.  The website for International Women’s Day says: “Each of us can be a leader within our own spheres of influence and commit to take pragmatic action to accelerate gender parity.”  The results of this drive for these products for girls and women have been impressive. 

All of the items collected will be distributed to some women’s shelters in Halifax and to ISANS where there is also a genuine need to support refugees.  Thank you to everyone for your generous support!  

This is just a very small sampling of the numerous boxes of 

feminine hygiene items collected.

Way to go, Ladies!