Purpose
Our purpose is to help underprivileged girls acquire their monthly needed hygiene products without feeling ashamed or embarrassed. This is a difficult topic and often embarrassing issue. Finding an easy way to solve this critical hygiene need will solve many personal and emotional issues for many young women.
The Cycle Project is a grassroots service project that helps young women in poverty acquire their monthly needed hygiene products.
Our Background
The Cycle project is a service project that helps young women in need acquire their monthly needed hygiene products. The project leads the efforts to fundraise and collect the desired products and then donates them to schools, charities, and organizations around Sheboygan County.
Our Vision
Finding an easy way to solve this critical hygiene need will solve many personal and emotional issues for many young women. We are now a 501(c)(3), meaning that 100% of all donations for this cause are tax deductible. “ -Erin Pellegrino
Our Founder
Hi! I'm the founder Erin Pellegrino, an 18 year old from Kohler, Wi. In June of 2019, inspired by an article I read about period poverty, I founded The Cycle Project, a charity created to raise awareness, fundraise, collect, and distribute feminine hygiene products to young women in need. When I found out about period poverty, finding out what girls, my age, younger and older, have to go through to acquire their basic needs, I was astonished. One in four women have trouble affording feminine menstrual products; and one in five miss work and school due to lack of access to period supplies. These facts transformed my surface area knowledge into a personal mission. The Cycle project has allowed me to penetrate the boundaries of Sheboygan county in central Wisconsin to help girls overcome this critical need. The Cycle Project has had the opportunity to assist over 400 girls in my county to acquire their annual needs for their menstrual cycle. I am grateful to the girls of Sheboygan county, my mentors and our community--thy inspired and helped me create The Cycle Project.
