Taking period products from nice-to-have to necessity with Dignity NZ

Dignity is a social enterprise founded in 2017, with the goal of making sure no one is ever held back by their period. Dignity provides affordable organic period products to businesses across the country. And for every business’s purchase, they gift the equivalent amount of period products to community organisations – like food banks, youth groups, teen parent units and more. 

Through this important work, Dignity has gifted over 860,00 individual period products. Bringing confidence, hope, and dignity to women, girls and menstruators up and down the country.

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Societal taboos around periods are still going strong, and their effect on menstruators can be crippling. In 2020, it was estimated around 70,000 New Zealanders lacked access to basic period education – despite it being taught in schools from age 11. This education gap can lead to feelings of embarrassment, anxiety and low self-esteem. Long story short? The more we talk about periods, the better. 

That’s why Dignity isn’t just breaking down the barriers to period product access. They’re also breaking down the stubborn stigma surrounding menstruation. By releasing regular Impact Reports and advocating for societal change, they’re playing a major role in changing the period conversation in New Zealand.

We’re proud to have worked with Dignity since 2020, and our partnership is still going strong to this day. For every SaniPod™ unit sold, we donate $1 to Dignity. So every time a business chooses SaniPod™ , they’re not just giving their employees and customers a world-class sanitary disposal experience. They’re helping give period products to those who need them most. 

As part of our partnership, we’re also signed up with Dignity’s ‘Buy One, Give One’ corporate sponsorship programme. Through this great initiative, businesses can provide their employees with free sanitary products – and gift the equivalent to people in the community who lack access to these everyday essentials.

SaniPod™ is a global business, found in some of the world’s busiest and best washrooms. But we’re designed right here in New Zealand. That’s why we’re so thrilled to partner with a great New Zealand organisation like Dignity, who’s doing so much to shift the dial on period poverty. 

The last three years have seen us donate thousands of dollars to Dignity, and bring thousands more free sanitary items to people in need. We can’t wait to see what we can achieve in the years still to come.

Find out how your business can work with Dignity NZ to bring organic period products to your own team, and to your wider community.