Seven years ago today, on International Menstrual Hygiene Day, Amore carried out its first menstrual hygiene donation initiative through the Cycle Care Programme distributing hygiene kits alongside scholar packs.

Over the years, I have come to understand that helping girls and women access sanitary wear to alleviate period poverty is never only about pads.

It reveals how development systems often overlook girls and women quietly.

A girl missing school, or a woman restricted from being comfortable, confident, and efficient in her day-to-day productive activities because of menstruation, is not experiencing a single problem.

She is experiencing the intersection of health systems, education systems, economic inequality, gender stigma, sanitation access, and psychosocial wellbeing.

This has deeply impacted how I understand human-centred development.

WELLBEING IS SYSTEMIC

Mental health cannot be separated from dignity.

Education cannot be separated from health.
Human development cannot be separated from the conditions people are forced to survive within.

Menstrual health matters deeply –
not as charity, but as justice, dignity and systems transformation.

That understanding has become part of the vision behind AMORE.

2026- Together for a Period-Friendly-World🌸

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