Recently EmpowHER has been working hard on their annual “holiday for the homeless” event organized by the exclusive board of EmpowHER. During this drive, people are welcome to donate care products and necessity items, such as canned goods, clothes, soap, and more. The products will go to the local non-profit Help Now Osceola, which focuses on helping individuals that have struggled with domestic violence as well as those who have been left without a home.
The drive has a tentative deadline to end December 1st. Thanks to Neocity Academy, St. Cloud high school, and Harmony high school, EmpowHER is able to expand their donation sites in each participating schools’ campuses to further advance product care equity in our county. To tie in a mix of holiday and OCSA spirit the EmpowHER members and board decorated two boxes for each major and tried to personalize them to each artistic discipline.
EmpowHER is a woman led group of young individuals working to bring community awareness to social issues, build leadership, and collaborate on community social projects. “We are doing our best to listen and take action on what needs to be fixed,” says Giovanna Columbini, part of the EmpowHER communications committee.
The club was created by Venecia Rodriguez with the sole purpose to help others and bring awareness. She had spent most of her life living in Venezuela during its lowest point when there was a national scarcity of menstrual care products and other personal care items such as toilet paper, soap, and food. She saw the impact necessity item poverty can have on a nation. It pushed her to want to contribute and work to eliminate the instances where humans must choose whether they want to eat or take care of themselves for the day.
EmpowHER has become a part of the Global Initiative advancing menstrual equity in our communities: WeDeliverPeriod. They have been active in crafting ways to appoint menstrual care products at OCSA. “We have been working hard to figure out ways to employ our campus with more education about menstrual poverty and break down the walls that menstrual care product items should not be seen as a privilege but instead as a right,” says Elizabeth Davidoff, secretary of EmpowHER.
EmpowerHER is an organization with big goals to help and a drive to accomplish them. If you want to donate to “holiday for the homeless” drive, make sure you find one the donation boxes given to your respective major!
