CouldYou?

03/07/2024

Ending Transactional S*x for a Box of Pads for $1/year!! A big thank you Kofi Nyanteng and the Ghana team who oversaw our Wa East Pilot in Ghana; providing the CouldYou? menstrual cup to 2000 girls in the same region where a 2021 study funded by Plan International in the Wa found 83% of rural girls who had no access to menstrual products transacted s*x for pads due to the problem of accessibility and affordability.

Our data was just published in the British Journal of Health Care and Medical Research. Read more about our intervention in the Wa East District:
https://journals.scholarpublishing.org/index.php/JBEMi/article/view/16371
"CouldYou?, a US based non-profit responded to this developmental challenge as the organizations role in addressing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 1,3,4, 5, and 17. CouldYou? collaborated with Ghana Girl Guides Association , and Plan International supported non-profits - Necessary Aid Alliance and Upper West Youth Parliament. The menstrual cup intervention reached 2,000 girls in the Wa East District and had where we had 97% acceptability of the cup! With this backdrop, this current study offers more insights into how the menstrual cup has become an innovative solution to fighting period poverty in rural Ghana

Innovations in Addressing Menstrual Poverty in Africa: The Menstrual Cup Intervention for Girls in Rural Ghana Authors Kofi Kyeremateng Nyanteng Christine Garde Denning DOI: https://doi.org/10.14738/bjhmr.111.16371 Abstract Background: Period poverty does not receive the needed attention and poses a...

10/11/2023

In Honor of International Day of the Girl we are launching our CouldYou? Cup Anthem https://youtu.be/OZ3D35x0l-U?feature=shared
and our Buy one Give One! www.couldyoucup.org
The CouldYou? Cup Anthem was created to bring awareness to the issue of Period Poverty which affects 500Million girls/women globally. We are on a mission to see NO girl ever misses school or work again because she can't afford menstrual products (and to END the practice of transactional s*x for pads) with our $1/year, zero waste CouldYou? menstrual cup.
This amazing song was created by:
Ignacio Rosado, a 16 year old composer and musician and Ava Briglia a 16 year old artist and performer who have collaborated to create a special anthem for CouldYou? to help spread awareness around the Globe. The anthem highlights our mission and our sustainable solution to end period poverty by 2040.
Iggy and Ava met when they were 10 years old while on Broadway together in the School of Rock. They formed a close relationship and have since written several pieces together for non-profit organizations to help raise awareness. They had a blast recording the piece with other friends from Broadway and LaGuardia High School of the Performing Arts!
Music by Ignacio Rosado
Lyrics by Ava Sophia Briglia .briglia
Singers:
Ellie Kim
Arielle Tien
Junelle Marie Virtusio .mrv
Isabella Cruz
Isabella Russo
Ava Sophia Briglia .briglia
Executive Producer Shannon Guse
Producer/Engineer Thr33 A.M.

05/30/2023

Grateful to Michael Roizen for highlighting Period Poverty and for mentioning our non-profit and how we are trying to end it by distributing the CouldYou? Cup. Check out his column that appeared in 150 newspapers nationwide last week. Michael Roizen is chief medical officer at the Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute, an award-winning author, and has been the doctor to eight Nobel Prize winners and more than 100 Fortune 500 CEOs.
https://www.newsmax.com/Health/drroizen/womens-health-tampons-expenses/2023/05/25/id/1121192/

03/02/2023

If you are in Mozambique, Friday March 4th at 21h, tune into Abuchamo's talk show on TMT 17 and Cable TV 353! Listen to his conversation with CouldYou? Maputo staff Darmin Mutenda about the work she is doing to end period poverty with the CouldYou? menstrual cup and health education. Abuchamo also speaks about the importance of including boys/men in the conversation to break taboos; which is why he is a CouldYou? Cup Ambassador!

03/01/2023

What an honor it is to Walk alongside the incredible work of Younger Leaders School in Beira Mozambique! The school was completely destroyed during cyclone Ida, but now it is rebuilt and thriving! There are now two campuses with 35 teachers serving 1300 students! Grade 1 is reading! We'll done Manuel Jeque to you and your team!!!

01/18/2023

If you are at Sundance, check out 2050 Forums January 20, 1-4pm. Impact Forums "Uniting Around Hate" & "Gender Equality" with performance by Max Louis. CouldYou? Founder; Christine Garde Denning will be speaking on the Gender Equality forum about our work with the CouldYou? menstrual cup.
Day 1 Programming will feature Holocaust Survivor Sami Stiegmann, The African Renaissance Development Network, FIFA, and The United Nations: Raising a Red Card to All Forms of Discrimination and Violence Against Women and Girls Campaign, and CouldYou? Cup.
Email [email protected] for details on these historic conversations.

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11/18/2022

Thank you for your partnership shipping 6000 CouldYou? Cups to Poland; 3000 for refugees in Poland and for distributing 3000 for women in fighting in the front lines and for women in Hospitals. Thank you and and for partnering with us to ensure the cups get to the women who need them!
https://lnkd.in/gsb22g4u

New York—17 November 2022—This week, 6,000 CouldYou? menstrual cups were shipped to Poland for distribution to Ukrainian women on the frontline, refugee camps, and clinics as part the Ukrainian American House’s and other NGO’s humanitarian efforts. The distribution of the CouldYou? menstrual...

10/26/2022

Grateful for today's article in Grit Daily.
https://lnkd.in/g9HsRrtz
To end period poverty in the US, we need to include sustainable, healthy, and affordable product options for girls and women. CouldYou? is currently at the forefront in lobbying to change legislation to include the menstrual cup as a “period product” in the more than 60 menstrual equity laws in the US. This would enable the cup to be included for distribution at schools, hospitals, correctional facilities, and through other state and federal institutions.

10/25/2022

Excited to begin work in Zambia. First training with CouldYou? Cup at the Hope medical clinic at Breath of Heaven! And with house mothers and aunties with breath of Heaven founder Judy Lawler! 

10/23/2022

Humbled to work alongside our incredible partners in Uganda to serve the menstrual needs of vulnerable girls/women
Check out this article
https://www.newvision.co.ug/articledetails/145822

Learn more

10/20/2022

What a great day at the U.S. Embassy in Kampala, Uganda, Hosting a menstrual hygiene event with Pilgrim Center for Reconciliation Creating awareness of the CouldYou?Cup and menstrual poverty. Thank you to the U.S. Embassy, our CouldYou? team, the Pilgrim Center for Reconciliation, Tunawanza and all those who attended in support of building strong partnerships to help end period poverty!

10/19/2022

Every girl. Everywhere. providing menstrual health education and the CouldYou? Cup at the correctional centre at Mushin, Nigeria

10/14/2022

If you are near Chester NJ next Sunday stop by Chester Bagel where 3 incredible High School Students from West Morris Regional High School are having a bake sale to raise money to provide menstrual cups to girls in the Wa East District of Ghana, where a recent PLAN int. study shows 83% of the girls having s*x for a pad! $10 provides one CouldYou? Menstrual cup; meeting their menstrual needs for 10 years!

09/25/2022

Proud to partner with Yagazie Foundation in a community outreach at the correctional center at Mushin Lagos, providing menstrual cups to girls at the juvenile center. One cup will meet their menstrual needs for 10 years!

08/24/2022

So proud that CouldYou? Monitoring & Evaluating Specialist; Kofi Kyeremateng Nyanteng was consulted by , for their article on "Period pad prices push girls out of school in Africa". https://lnkd.in/g3wxVNcw

and for highlighting this global issue! We need to continue and deepen the conversation on scalable solutions so we can ensure NO girl misses school because she can't afford a pad and NO girl has to have s*x to get a pad in order to go to school! , join us at our menstrual equity forum September 14, 4-6pm at 3 West Club. 10 spots left!
"We need to explore efficient and sustainable ways to address menstrual poverty...put reusable products like the menstrual cup on the desks of policymakers."
--Kofi Kyeremateng Nyanteng, Ghana country director for CouldYou?, which distributes silicone menstrual cups to marginalized girls globally

Period poverty worsens with inflation crisis, as girls trade s*x for pads or risk infection by using rags, leaves and cow dung

06/05/2022

This World Environment Day, switch to our sustainable and reusable menstrual cup! Get one cup for you, and give one cup to a vulnerable girl https://bit.ly/CYCG1G1

05/23/2022

In South Africa, you don’t want to miss our event in partnership with and So grateful for their support and work to help us end period poverty

CouldYou? is a NY based 501c3 dedicated to curating, proving and scaling solutions to poverty. Our m