Our Mission & Vision

Got Her Covered pledges to increase access to feminine hygiene care, through providing care packages, cultivating social initiatives, mobilizing helpers, and innovating sustainable resolutions that will shatter stigmas and limitations for women and girls caused by period poverty. Together, we are creating a city/county with dignity, health, and opportunity for our girls and sisters. We will dedicate our time and effort to ensure that all school-aged girls in low-income households and homeless women in Cleveland/Bradley County have sufficient menstrual supplies. Our program will provide period care for the homeless middle school and high school girls from low-income households in Cleveland/Bradley School Polk County, and surrounding School Districts! 

With your help, we can help every girl/woman in need...
Without access to period care and education, girls are often forced to stay home from school during their periods, which leads them to miss anywhere from 10-20 percent of school days. Sometimes, they drop out of school completely.

• Forty percent of girls reported they have used toilet paper because they have struggled to afford sanitary wear. 
• A survey of low-income women in a large U.S. city found that nearly two-thirds could not afford menstrual hygiene products such as tampons or pads during the previous year. 
• More than one in five women said they had this problem every month, according to researchers who reported to Obstetrics and Gynecology. 
• Women said they made do with cloth, rags, tissues, toilet paper, and sometimes even diapers or paper towels taken from public bathrooms. 

Anne Sebert Kuhlmann, an associate professor in the College for Public Health and Social Justice at St. Louis University said, “This is not a luxury. It’s a need. It affects a woman’s sense of self, her sense of dignity, and her ability to participate in life.” Got Her Covered initiative wishes to end period poverty and period stigma in Cleveland/Bradley County and Polk County Middle/High School.   

• Period products can be expensive, especially for those experiencing homelessness and poverty. 
• Menstrual products are considered “luxury” items in Tennessee, which means they can’t be bought through SNAP or WIC welfare programs. 
• Young women in Middle Tennessee are missing school as often as monthly for a simple reason—they can’t afford feminine hygiene products when they’re on their periods.