Giving Girls Their Days Back
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Tiffany Larson, CEO of Days for Girls International, presents the global crisis of menstrual inequity affecting 500 million women and girls who lack safe, dignified period management. Days for Girls provides washable pad kits, menstrual health education, and supports local social enterprises to create systemic change across 145 countries, having reached 3.7 million beneficiaries through a model combining product access, cultural education, and community-led solutions.
Key takeaways
- Menstrual inequity is a human rights issue, not just hygiene: 25% of women globally lack access to period management products, creating barriers to education, employment, and safety for approximately eight years of each girl's lifetime.
- Days for Girls uses a dual approach of providing affordable washable pad kits (costing $15 each) while building local social enterprises that employ community members—85% women—to distribute products and teach menstrual health education culturally appropriate to each region.
- Cultural practices like Nepal's menstrual huts and period poverty driving transactional sex in Kenya require grassroots community education and dialogue with local leaders rather than top-down interventions to achieve lasting behavioral change.
- The organization has created 451 jobs through social enterprises in 28 countries, with leaders like Alice transforming personal menstrual trauma into community-wide advocacy that reaches over 80,000 girls in her region.
- Anyone can contribute through volunteering (12,000 active volunteers), donating supplies or funds ($15/month reaches one girl), or advocating for government budget lines to include menstrual products alongside school uniforms.
About Tiffany LarsonTiffany Larson is CEO of Days for Girls International, a global nonprofit founded in 2008 that addresses menstrual inequity across 145 countries through product access, education, and community-led social enterprises.
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Program: Giving Girls Their Days Back
Speaker: Tiffany Larson
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Every day, more than 500 million women and girls live without access to menstrual supplies. This often forces them to use unsafe materials that put their health at risk and cause them to miss school or work. With menstruation lasting about 3,000 days over a lifetime (more than 8 years), this challenge is not only a matter of health but also one of equity, dignity, and opportunity.
Days for Girls (DfG) wants to change that. Since 2008, DfG has reached 3.5 million people in 145 countries with sustainable menstrual health solutions and education. Through holistic approaches such as their Period Positive Schools and Workplaces initiatives and women-led social enterprises, DfG is building scalable impact that transforms lives and strengthens communities. In this presentation, Days for Girls CEO Tiffany Larson will share powerful stories of change, highlight the connection between menstrual health and gender equality, and share how we can all work towards a world where periods are never a problem.
Our speaker, Tiffany Larson, leads Days for Girls International as CEO focusing on dignity, equity, and opportunity for all. A passionate advocate for menstrual health and sustainable development, she has over two decades of experience blending business acumen with a heart for global impact. Her leadership is grounded in the belief that access to health and education is a human right, and that lasting change starts at the community level.
Before becoming CEO, Tiffany held several executive roles at Days for Girls, including Chief Operating Officer and Chief Program Officer, each shaping her holistic and inclusive approach to global leadership.
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