Feminism Club holds successful hygiene drive
High School students’ service project was recently featured in the Nashville Rescue Mission’s newsletter.
Earlier this spring, the High School Feminism Club requested the student body to join it in donating money and hygiene items to assist women who are sheltering at the Nashville Rescue Mission. The initiative was a success, as they gathered $560 worth of menstrual products that filled four large boxes.
“We had a super successful menstrual product drive, and thank you all for participating,” said Cléo Gauthier ’24, who led the club this year with Clara Smail ’24, Margot Ross ’24, and Kareena Kloek ’25. “We ended up getting 18 boxes of pads, 13 boxes of tampons, and $343 cash. These products [went] to to the Nashville Rescue Mission, a community center committed to helping people experiencing hunger and homelessness in Nashville since 1954.”
A Nashville Rescue Mission representative attended the High School Assembly on Friday, April 26, to accept the personal hygiene products and cash from the student-led drive.
“These gifts will significantly help the ladies sheltering at the Linda & Mike Curb Women’s Center at Nashville Rescue Mission,” the Nashville Rescue Mission wrote in its e-newsletter. “A huge thank you to the Feminism Club at University School of Nashville.”
HS Dean of Student Life Justin Karpinos added, “It is really, really important for our young folks to make this connection between their service and the recipients.”
Putting sanitary products within reach has been a priority for students in recent years. The Class of 2022’s graduating gift to USN was to fund nine dispensers with free stocked with organic cotton pads and tampons in restrooms frequently used by Middle and High School students. The idea began with an Eighth Grade Change Project.
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