Grand Prairie student has raised $16,000 and counting to fight period poverty

By Sarah Bahari
Published by The Dallas Morning News on May 19, 2022

Volunteering at homeless shelters, Taylor M. noticed something strange.

Women were everywhere. Yet Taylor never saw menstrual pads or tampons in any of the bags she helped hand out.

“It’s the elephant in the room that no one wants to talk about,” said Taylor, 17, a junior at Grand Prairie’s Young Women’s Leadership Academy. “But girls and women need menstruation products.”

That’s when Taylor first learned the phrase “period poverty,” which refers to a lack of access to menstruation products.

In 2021, the Lancaster teenager started The Confident Girl Project, which distributes feminine hygiene products to schools, community centers and homeless shelters around Dallas.