05/20/2026
It doesn’t get talked about a lot, but feminine hygiene products can be a real strain on household budgets and cause women and girls to miss work and school for lack of appropriate products.
Yesterday, the food bank received a generous donation of 50 hygiene kits from Manuella King, founder and director of Grace Helping Hands, an organization dedicated to providing essential hygiene and feminine care products to women and children experiencing homelessness. These kits, with feminine hygiene products, shampoo, toothbrushes, and lip balm, will be directed to partner pantries across our network serving these populations.
At the same time, one of the wonderful volunteers on our Mobile Food Pantry noticed the same lack of products and donated enough money to pay for enough feminine hygiene products to distribute through the mobile pantry for the next six months!