Women's Relief Initiative- Initiative d’aides aux Femmes

Women’s Relief Initiative is hosting a Dignity Kits Distribution Event, where we’ll provide dignity kits filled with essential items for people who menstruate. This event also includes an educational workshop with physicians and medical students, focusing on women’s wellness. Join us in promoting a healthier and more dignified future! 💖 Here is the link to the event for more details: https://fb.me/e/8lqJZe48x

Join Us in Making a Difference! Our Women's Relief Initiative Non-profit is dedicated to distributing Dignity Kits and conducting Women's Wellness Workshops, both locally in Texas and globally. We are actively seeking interpreters fluent in Spanish, Arabic, French, Parsi, Dari, or Wolof to support our community outreach projects. By joining our team, you contribute to breaking down barriers and making dignified healthcare more accessible to women and other menstruators in need.

🔗 If you are fluent in any of these languages and have a passion for making a difference, we invite you to be part of our initiative. Your skills can help us provide vital support to women facing challenges and help create a more inclusive and compassionate world.

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Join WRI in our fight to stop period poverty!
We are looking for people to help with our Women’s Health Curriculum that focuses on puberty and menstruation. Please contact us if you are interested, or share to someone you think might be interested! Thanks from Team WRI!

We are partnering with to provide Dignity Kits to refugee women in central TX. Swipe to learn more about refugee women and menstruation and learn ways you can get involved with this effort.

We’ll be having a profit share with Gong Cha in Dobie Mall tomorrow, 9/12 from 6-8 PM 💖 Come talk to us at our meet and greet and get your questions answered!

Women’s Relief Initiative is recruiting UT students for general member and leadership positions! Check out the link in our bio to find our interest form and learn more about us through our website! ✨

We are accepting leadership applications for WRI, on the nonprofit side! WRI is a 501c3 organization that strives to provide menstrual aid that empowers women, sustains the environment, and uplifts under-resourced communities. One of our main goals as an organization is to develop a fully biodegradable disposable pad from affordable and sustainable resources. We are currently on the 7th prototype of our biodegradable pad and we hope to begin preliminary clinical trials soon. While our product is in research and development phase, we are fighting period poverty on both a local and international scale through pad drives, fundraising efforts, educational materials, and collaborations with other groups in the space, both local and global. We also host a podcast called Code Red where we hope to de-stigmatize conversations about periods by having open conversations on the topic!!

If you are interested in joining us and adding to our efforts, follow the application link in our bio to submit your application!

Let’s all celebrate Menstruation! Let’s normalize it! Let’s teach our community to be accepting and loving of everyone who menstruate! Join us at our first Period Party on April 16th from 10am-12pm at Moontower Cider Co. (1916 Tillery St, Austin, TX 78723) Please RSVP and learn about the event using the link in our bio or the QR code. Looking forward to seeing everyone! 🥳

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Shoutout to our Guinee chapter Initiative d’aide aux femmes for their hard and dedicated work in partnership with to support the folks of Cité de la Solidarite!

Hi everyone! Please listen to our Code Red Podcast Ep 6 where we talk with men about Periods!

Code Red Podcast Episode 6: Period Talk with Men by Code Red Conversations: A Period Podcast The women of Women's Relief Initiative (WRI) learn about how the men of WRI were first introduced to menstruation. We talk about what role do men play in breaking the silence on the topic of period.

WRI x Unity Heals Garage Sale! Come out to San Marcos! @217 Valero Drive, San Marcos, Texas 78666

Unity Heals and WRI Nonprofits are organizing a GARAGE SALE in San Marcos @ 217 Valero Dr., San Marcos, TX 78666. We will be selling clothes from a variety of brands Zara, H&M, Nike, Juicy Couture, and more…. Take some time to get some great deals, enjoy good music, and the company of good people.

The money from this Garage Sale will be used to make a documentary about the healthcare issues in one of the most impoverished countries of the world, Guinea (W. Africa).

Both Unity Heals and WRI are two nonprofit organizations working to improve health and reduce the mortality rate of people in underserved communities. Please do not hesitate to reach out with any questions.

THANK YOU!
Unity Heals

We are excited to introduce WRI’s new donation system on our website!

Thank you so much to all of you who have supported us from the jump! To those who contributed to our GoFundMe projects helping us fund local and global projects, thank you so much and look at us now! We couldn’t have gotten to where we are today without all of your support.

We are grateful for the opportunity to expand into a non-profit and be able to reach out to a wider audience of people who might be interested in our work against period poverty. With our new donation system, you can make monthly donations and become a Code Red Club member! Becoming a Code Red Club member comes with tons of perks.

Interested? Check out the link in our bio for more information about WRI and the link to our site!!

We are joining Unity Heals to raise money for a documentary that will highlight the various healthcare issues in Guinea.

How can you help? Women’s Relief Initiative will be hosting a two week Thrift Shop event at UT Austin.
- Week 1: Donation Week
Donate gently used clothes without large rips/stains

- Week 2: Thrift Shop Week
Buy gently used clothes, contribute to a great cause, and get some free treats!

WRI and Unity Heals have the same mission, which is to improve the quality of life through health care and education. Unity Heals wants to improve the health care system in Conakry, Guinea by building a reliable healthcare facility that not only provides health services but also provides educational resources to the community.

Join us these next two weeks and help us get Unity Heals one step closer to building a healthcare facility that will support the community in Conakry, Guinea!!

For this year, WRI partnered with Austin based nonprofit, Yellow Rose Initiative and a Tanzania based nonprofit, to provide support to menstruators experiencing homelessness and menstruators with disabilities.

Through the generous support of our donors and supporters, WRI was able to provide funding to these partner organizations to carry out service projects within their local communities.

Femme International collaborated with another Tanzania based nonprofit, which works to promote and encourage good health for women, girls, and children with disabilities in Tanzania.

Through this collective partnership and with WRI’s funding support, the two organizations were able to host a menstrual health workshop, serving women with disabilities in Tanzania. With the funding, they hosted this workshop event in which they taught the participants about menstruation, how to use menstrual pads, how to care for themselves during their periods, and distributed 20 afripads to 15 women and 5 girls.

With WRI’s funding support, Yellow Rose assembled and distributed about 130 care packages which included toiletries (see photos) to Austin locals experiencing homelessness.

As always, we thank you all for your continued support and belief in the mission of WRI!

THE TIME HAS COME!! 💃🏻🎄🎁
Our Online Kendra Gives Back Event has began!
Please support us by using the code: GIVEBACK-ARLUR when purchasing a gift this Christmas.
Link in our bio.
Thank you all so much! 😊

The Kendra Scott Fundraiser is 11/12 - 11/13! Don’t miss out on purchasing holiday gifts while also supporting ! Here’s the link to our page: https://texaswomensreliefinitiative.splashthat.com/

3 MORE DAYS UNTIL OUR KENDRA GIVES BACK EVENT! 💃

Click the link below on Nov 12-13 and use GIVEBACK-ARLUR to join us!
https://texaswomensreliefinitiative.splashthat.com/

Look for WRI on speedway. We're having a bake sale this morning from 10 am to 12 pm! Grab your pumpkin bread before they're sold out!

We want to give to everyone who was involved in Pad Drive last week. Special shout for our amazing director for putting so much effort at the event. Because we have so many items, we've decided that not only are we going to to Posada Esperanza, but we're going to split the donations and also donate to Team Brownsville, who is working directly at the border AND travels into Mexico for immigrant communities.

We are excited to announce that and Women’s Relief Initiative teams up together for our first Kendra event! You can participate by using the : GIVEBACK-ARLUR or go to the North Lamar Kendra Scott Store on November 12-13th. We are grateful for your support!

Comprehensive S*x Education, or CSE, is supported by 82% of adults, yet only 24 states mandate s*x education. According to the 2014 CDC School Health Profiles, fewer than half of high schools and only a fifth of middle schools teach all 16 topics recommended by the CDC as essential components of s*x education. These topics range from basic information on how HIV and other STDs are transmitted - and how to prevent infection - to critical communication and decision-making skills. It is important to research and understand your state’s policies about s*x education and advocate for a more comprehensive program for students.

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WRI is teaming with LARA to host a Pad Drive for immigrant women and children impacted by the border restrictions. We will be collecting Pads, diapers, and baby wipes for the Posada Esperanza shelter. Stop by at PCL Corner to drop off your donation materials on October 25, 2021 from 10 am to 5 PM.

Premenstrual Syndrome, aka is a group of physical and behavioral changes that some experience before their periods every month. Physical symptoms of PMS include craving certain food, feeling bloated, having headaches, experiencing skin problems, and getting cramps. Emotional symptoms of PMS include feeling sad, having mood swings, feeling more irritable than normal, crying suddenly, and not feeling very social. It’s common to have some of these symptoms and not others. It’s different for every person. Ways to relieve PMS symptoms is taking OTC medicine such as Tylenol or acetaminophen, doing aerobic exercise at least 30 minutes most days of the week, breathing exercises, getting plenty of rest, eating healthy food, and using hormonal birth control.

Premenstrual Syndrome, aka is a group of physical and behavioral changes that some experience before their periods every month. Physical symptoms of PMS include craving certain food, feeling bloated, having headaches, experiencing skin problems, and getting cramps. Emotional symptoms of PMS include feeling sad, having mood swings, feeling more irritable than normal, crying suddenly, and not feeling very social. It’s common to have some of these symptoms and not others. It’s different for every person. Ways to relieve PMS symptoms is taking OTC medicine such as Tylenol or acetaminophen, doing aerobic exercise at least 30 minutes most days of the week, breathing exercises, getting plenty of rest, eating healthy food, and using hormonal birth control.

is hosting this event to bring awareness to their organization and current projects that they plan to be executed in West and Central . Through this fun, event, they are aiming to raise $5,000 in to able to implement their current projects, which are: building an elementary school to provide children a safe and clean learning environment, to help in finishing the construction of a community water well as well as providing women and girls the tools and to have access to reusable, environmentally conscious .