The Grande Prairie Public Library's Hailey McCullough (l) and the Community Foundation of Northwestern Alberta's Tracey Vavrek announce a $15,00 grant from the RBC Foundation Monday at the Library. Photo by Curtis Galbraith.

By Curtis Galbraith

Community

Local project gets grant from RBC Foundation

Nov 18, 2019 | 5:18 PM

A new local project called Ending Period Poverty has been given a $15,000 grant from the RBC Foundation.

This will see free menstrual hygiene products available at no cost in the bathrooms at the Grande Prairie Public Library.

The Library’s Hailey McCullough says one-third of the people under age 25 who need these things can’t afford them.

“And that’s a lot of people. That’s one out of three, so I wanted to be able to give them an outlet to come to to get the product for free and to let them do things in their daily lives that, maybe otherwise, they wouldn’t have been able to do.”

Photo by Curtis Galbraith

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She adds these products should be available in the Library’s bathrooms, men’s and women’s, within a week or two.

“Not everyone who experiences a period is necessarily a woman or identifies as a woman, so we thought it was important to have them in the men’s washrooms as well and also because lots of men have someone they love who experiences a period, so this enables them to get the products for those people, too.”

McCullough says they should be available soon.

“Probably in the next week or two, with the dispensing units coming from the company somewhere in the next few weeks. It’s coming in the next couple weeks, but we’re hoping to get products out sooner than that, so maybe this week or next week.”

This is one of 150 projects in Canada, all led by young people, to get a grant through the RBC Future Launch Community Challenge.

The Community Foundation of Northwestern Alberta helped connect RBC with the project.