Every year, Listen To Your Mother North Jersey donates a portion of ticket sales to a local charity supporting the mothers and families in our community.
This year’s LTYM North Jersey charity is:
GIRLS HELPING GIRLS PERIOD
Girls Helping Girls Period (GHGP) carries out its mission of fighting period poverty by donating menstrual products, educating individuals on safe period management and advocating for systemic changes that remove menstruation as a barrier to work, school and a fulfilling life.
GHGP has donated nearly four million menstrual products through more than 100 agency partners, but recognizes this is not a solution, but rather a critical, “band-aid” fix. Individuals miss out on opportunity, education and the ability to thrive when they do not have their most basic needs met.
Creating "menstrual equity" in all public spaces is GHGP's goal. They helped pass a new law in NJ that will require schools to provide free period products in student bathrooms beginning in the fall of 2024. They teach menstrual management workshops across New Jersey in an effort to give more people agency over their own bodies. And they consult with businesses about the need to ensure that every employee, and guest, has all they need to manage themselves in restrooms.
Girls Helping Girls Period started as a small project organized by Quinn and Emma Joy, and their mom, Elise, in 2015, when they learned that several of Quinn's SOMS classmates were regularly missing school due to lack of menstrual supplies. The "girls" continue to serve on the GHGP board, and Elise has run the nonprofit as its executive director since its establishment in 2016.
