Blog 1-Introduction

As I first started this process, and I did my research, the amount of women who do not have
access to proper hygiene and or feminine products was truly heartbreaking. Homeless women all
around the world have trouble maintaining a proper hygiene every month. As a young women I
know the kind of things these homeless women need access to. They are just like us and deserve
the right to be able to maintain a proper hygiene. It is unfair that these women have trouble
taking care of themselves even when it is a basic human need. Menstrual cycles are a natural
thing, feminine products should be a free access but instead it is seen as a luxury good. Not
maintaining a good hygiene can lead to serious and death threatening conditions for women.
Each month they struggle to find good quality products that they need. Not only do they lack
products but they can not even accesses a proper shower during these times. The fact that I
believe that all women should have the right to access these types of products no matter what
kind of circumstances they are in, really pushed me to continue this journey. Our plan was to be
able to provide a homeless women in shelters in our nearby community with hygiene products,
and some care packages made especially with feminine products. Being able to provide to this
woman would not solve the problem but we knew it would made a big difference in at least a
small group of women, and that was truly our goal.

Blog 2-Steps
My group and I got straight to planning our our steps. Our purpose and project took a bit of time
towards planning our process.We knew that each of these would take time and consistency.
Although it was not the exact same steps from my product proposal, I know we did our absolute
best and got pretty close to completing each of the steps from our product proposals. We started
by first contacting nearby shelters and ask in what ways we can donate feminine products and
what is appropriate to donate. Wr reached out to our local church, Our Lady of Guadalupe Shrine
and Operation Safe House and they both agreed to help us reach our goal. We then talked to and
asked some of our teachers and school staff to help promote and collect our donations. After
agreeing with four of our teachers we created a flyer for there classes with a list of donations that
we needed. We asked for donations and necessary products like Pads, Toilet paper, travel size:
deodorants and shampoo, toothbrush, adult diapers and plastic bags. We sent out our flyers and
boxes to each class to collect our donations. After a week, we collected all donations from each
class. With the total outcome of our donations we took them to only Operation Safe House. Our
steps did not go exactly go as planned but we got our message out there and made did make a
difference for at least of of these homeless women.
Blog 3-Reflection
When I was first introduced to this project, I felt invincible and like I could really change the
world. My group and I were excited to start the process and make a difference for these women.
As we proceed to work on our project and purpose, we faced some obstacles and challenges
along the way. After completing our tasks and steps on our checklist, we did not have trouble
coming most of the steps. Some of the teachers offered extra credit and that was helpful for us
and gave us a better chance of collecting a larger amount of donations. On the other hand, it was
harder for other teachers to collect any or some of the asked items than the teachers who did
offer extra credit. We also noticed that we got more donations from a teacher who presented it
and introduces it more to her classes. Our biggest challenge through this whole process I believe
was collecting enough donations. We were not able to reach our goal with the amount of
donations we received. This unfortunately made us shifted us away from our original plan of
making care packages. We decided to just take the amount of donations we receive and take
them to Operation Safe House. I really do see this as an accomplishment, because even if we did
not do exactly what we wanted, we were still make a difference even if it was just a small
difference. It is all about quality, not quantity. This really opened my eyes and I learned that not
many people take the nature of menstrual cycles as serious as they should. I could never imagine
myself in the position those poor women are in every month. Something we could have done
differently is the way we promoted our idea, we should have spoken out more about the issue
and maybe we would have received more donations than what we did. I do feel like we made a
difference, we provided just a little extra help, some that they did not have before, enough to help
one of these women.