Purpose
Our purpose is to help underprivileged girls acquire their monthly needed hygiene products without feeling ashamed or embarrassed. This is a difficult topic and often embarrassing issue. Finding an easy way to solve this critical hygiene need will solve many personal and emotional issues for many young women.
The Cycle Project is a grassroots service project that helps young women in poverty acquire their monthly needed hygiene products.
Our Background
The Cycle project is a service project that helps young women in need acquire their monthly needed hygiene products. The project leads the efforts to fundraise and collect the desired products and then donates them to schools, charities, and organizations around Sheboygan County.
Our Vision
Finding an easy way to solve this critical hygiene need will solve many personal and emotional issues for many young women. We are now a 501(c)(3), meaning that 100% of all donations for this cause are tax deductible. “ -Erin Pellegrino
Co-President
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Hi! I’m Erin Pellegrino, a 22-year-old from Kohler, WI, and founder of The Cycle Project. In 2019, after reading an article about period poverty, I was shocked to learn that one in four women struggle to afford menstrual products and one in five miss work or school because of it. Determined to take action, I launched The Cycle Project to raise awareness, fundraise, and provide feminine hygiene products to girls in need. Our sponsors have been extraordinarily supportive and I'm proud of what our team, my family, has been able to do to address period poverty in Sheboygan County.
Co-President
Hi! I’m Melanie Pellegrino, a 17-year-old from Kohler, WI, and have been carrying on The Cycle Project mission since 2021. Since then, we’ve distributed more than 150,000 feminine hygiene products to women and girls in need in Sheboygan County. It's been inspiring to work with our donors and local schools/organizations to help address this critical issue. There is more work to be done and I'm very appreciative of our community's support.