06/16/2026
We serve Every Girl. Everywhere. Period.
And to the booklist in the article, we’d like to add ‘The Power of Days’ written by our founder, and available at Grove City Community Library, PA and in the Libby app.
"In South Africa, millions of girls and women are forced to use newspapers, cardboard, cloth, and other makeshift materials because period products are simply unaffordable and out of reach.
Created by the MENstruation Foundation in partnership with the agency Joe Public and Independent Media, this striking campaign printed menstrual blood stains across newspaper pages, turning a familiar object into a powerful statement on what period poverty looks like for more than 4 million schoolgirls. Readers opened their newspapers to find what appeared to be a period stain bleeding through the front page and onto the pages that followed, a visual representation of a reality that many girls live with every month.
No one should have to miss school, opportunities, or everyday moments because they can't access basic menstrual products. The conversation around menstrual health needs to happen every day, until period poverty is no longer a reality." -- via The Female Quotient
To learn more and support the critical work of the Menstruation Foundation, visit https://menstruation.foundation/
To help your own Mighty Girl feel prepared for puberty and her first period, check out the resources in our blog post ‘That Time of the Month’: Teaching Your Mighty Girl about Her Menstrual Cycle” at https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=11614
You can also find a step-by-step guide to creating a DIY First Period Kit for your Mighty Girl at https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=26183
Fortunately, there are many affirming and informative resources to teach girls about their bodies-- one of our favorite puberty books "The Care and Keeping of You" is now available in two versions, one for younger girls ages 8 and up (https://www.amightygirl.com/the-care-and-keeping-of-you-1) and one for slightly older girls ages 10 and up (https://www.amightygirl.com/the-care-and-keeping-of-you-2)
And for two excellent books about girls fighting for access to feminine hygiene products at school, we recommend the graphic novel "Go With The Flow" (https://www.amightygirl.com/go-with-the-flow) and the novel "Revenge of the Red Club" (https://www.amightygirl.com/revenge-of-the-red-club), both for ages 10 and up
