Mama Flo

OUR STORY: In June 2020, amidst The Covid 19 pandemic we were asked by a young man named Khanyisa, from Site B, Khayelitsha (who we still work with today) to hand out sanitary products in his community. We had no idea what we were in for or why he needed sanitary products... What we saw on that day was a call to action that we simply could not ignore and realised that young people living in these communities were facing a far harsher pandemic, the pandemic period of poverty. Despite us being young women who use these products regularly, we were unaware as to how difficult these products were to access for some... This was how Mama Flo was born… with a mission to find short and long-term sustainable solutions to period poverty. We are committed to providing people who menstruate with access and agency to their period freedom, free period education and free period products.