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Ms. Borsa from Bellaire, TX is requesting classroom basics through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Ms. Borsa's classroom raised $725

Freedom from Period Poverty

Help me give my students feminine hygiene products for girls who face period poverty to have access to these resources freely in the school restrooms.

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Ms. Borsa Bellaire High School
Bellaire, TX Grades 9-12

My Students

Our school is a Title I school, with over fifty percent of the population receiving free or reduced-price lunch.

The Italian National Honor Society that I sponsor has a project to increase access to feminine hygiene products for our girls.

We believed the previous projects would cover the whole second semester, but girls are really using the products and we have enough for about another month or so...

It is important to provide students with the privacy and products they need in order to succeed and be able to thrive in a school environment.

We were helped by generous donors in the Fall and now it is vital to receive your support to provide girls with pads and tampons until June.

My Project

Period poverty is the lack of access to education about menstruation or menstrual products. This is an issue that faces an alarming number of students in the United States. This is the third project we post this year, and we are already short of resources because girls are actually using them.

These pads and tampons will allow students who face period poverty to access these resources freely in the school restrooms, where we have already placed baskets to make all these products readily available for them.

This will improve girls' attendance since they would not have to miss school for lack of resources when they have their period, and it will help them to focus on their academic work.

A study conducted by Think and Period found that twenty-three percent of students in the U.S. experience period poverty. Additionally, an overwhelming majority of students felt that period products should be available to them in their school bathrooms.

Bellaire, TX

Grades 9-12

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Nearly all students from low‑income households

999 students impacted 17 donors
Ms. Borsa Bellaire High School Grades 9-12

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Bellaire, TX View local requests

Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

999 students impacted 17donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Always Ultra Thin Feminine Pads for Women, Size 5, Extra Heavy, Overnight Absorbency with Flexi-Wings, Unscented, 46 Count, Pack of 4 • Amazon Business $39.56 5 $197.80
Always Maxi Feminine Pads for Women, Size 5, Extra Heavy Overnight Absorbency, with Wings, Unscented, 36 Count( Pack of 4 )(Package May Vary) • Amazon Business $32.96 5 $164.80
Always Ultra Thin Feminine Pads with Wings for Women, Super Absorbency, Unscented, Size 2 (126 Count) • Amazon Business $22.17 5 $110.85
Tampax Pearl Tampons Trio Pack, Light, Regular, Super Absorbency, BPA-Free Plastic Applicator and LeakGuard Braid, Unscented, 100 Count • Amazon Business $20.79 5 $103.95

Materials cost

$577.40

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$8.66

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$616.06

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$108.72

Total project goal

$724.78

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $724.78

17 Donors

-$691.36

Donations toward project cost

-$616.06

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$75.30

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$33.42

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