The Pachamama Project

🗣️ “I used to miss school every month,” says 24-year-old Ella Lambert. “So when I first heard about period poverty, it really struck a chord with me.” Ella Lambert entered lockdown wanting to do something constructive. During those strange, quiet days, she wondered how women around the world were accessing period products. “I thought, what about people who don’t have a sustainable income to buy pads because they’re moving from place to place — what are they doing?” she says. Hailing from Chelmsford, Essex, she is now CEO of The Pachamama Project, which creates and distributes reusable period products to vulnerable women and girls around the world, including refugees. More than 2,500 volunteers across 13 countries — calling themselves “pachamamas and pachapapas” — have produced 160,000 reusable pads. This amounts to 20,000 people helped out of period poverty in 11 countries. Lambert features on The Sunday Times’s annual Young Power List, celebrating the 30 most powerful people under 30 in the UK. Read the full interview below 👇 https://lnkd.in/ejsyaQMe

The Sunday Times’s annual Young Power List celebrates talent, tenacity and hard work. Our definition of power goes beyond bank balances and social media followings. This is about the power to think differently, break records and make lives better. Sunday Times editors from every section of the paper nominated the young British men and women who are dominating their field, rewriting the rules and are most likely to have enduring careers. The criteria? They need to be 30 or under, from the UK and doing brilliant things on the world stage or behind the scenes. Olivia Jenkins and Jack Z., founders of D. Louise, Ella Lambert, founder of the The Pachamama Project Project, Simmy Dhillon, co-founder of Simmer and Jess Hunt, founder of REFY are just some of the young people on our list who are shaking up the business world. 🔗 Read our interviews with all the winners: https://lnkd.in/eYctX7Ma

So proud of this recognition from The Times for everything we do at The Pachamama Project. https://lnkd.in/gGfTTdyd

The Sunday Times’s annual Young Power List celebrates talent, tenacity and hard work. Our definition of power goes beyond bank balances and social media followings. This is about the power to think differently, break records and make lives better. Sunday Times editors from every section of the paper nominated the young British men and women who are dominating their field, rewriting the rules and are most likely to have enduring careers. The criteria? They need to be 30 or under, from the UK and doing brilliant things on the world stage or behind the scenes. Olivia Jenkins and Jack Z., founders of D. Louise, Ella Lambert, founder of the The Pachamama Project Project, Simmy Dhillon, co-founder of Simmer and Jess Hunt, founder of REFY are just some of the young people on our list who are shaking up the business world. 🔗 Read our interviews with all the winners: https://lnkd.in/eYctX7Ma

So proud of this recognition from The Times for everything we do at The Pachamama Project. https://lnkd.in/gGfTTdyd

Yesterday we ran a workshop with Wild who generously lent us their employees (and office dogs!) for an afternoon to make reusable pads for people experiencing period poverty. With a shared mission of reducing waste in the hygiene space, it was a fantastic afternoon collaborating with a wonderful bunch - we even got a double rainbow to show for it, which can only be a good omen. The pads they made will be off to school girls in Uganda on our next shipment 💙🧡🌞 If you’re in the Essex/London area and are interested in booking a workshop with us, pop us an email at thepachamamaproject@outlook.com #volunteer #corporatevolunteering #periodpoverty

✨This International Women’s Day we’re focussed more than ever on our mission to end period poverty, collectively, one reusable period pad at a time. ✨ 500 million women, girls and people who menstruate worldwide struggle to afford period products using leaves, scraps of material..whatever they can get their hands on. Girls miss school, women miss work, people struggle with the stigma. But it’s not all doom and gloom - we have the most incredible community making real impact. The last 8 days we’ve profiled some of the incredible women helping us tackle period poverty. But there are literally thousands of volunteers involved in our project, let alone our amazing partners who are dedicated to getting our pads to the people who need them the most. This month, and every month you can get involved in The Pachamama Project by volunteering your time and by donating to our International Women’s Day fundraiser. 🔗 https://gofund.me/7064f15a £10 supports someone out of period poverty for the next 5 years and anything you give will make a world of difference. Happy IWD everyone!!!🧡💙🌞 #internationalwomensday #periodpoverty #pachapads #volunteer

Happy International Women’s Day! Day 8 of celebrating the phenomenal women involved in The Pachamama Project and we have Helen who is launching her International Women’s Day fundraiser today as she plans to Wing Walk (yes walk on aeroplane wings!!) to raise money for us. 🧡💙🌞 Last year for her 70th she sky dived and this year she’s wing walking- who knows what she’ll do next year! Please consider donating to support the incredible Helen and help us get our reusable pads to people experiencing period poverty all around the world. £10 gets a pack of pads to someone who then doesn’t have to worry about finding period products for at least 5 years - seeing girls through to the end of their schooling, supporting women to stay in work and restoring dignity. 🔗 https://gofund.me/7064f15a Anything you donate will make a world of difference. Happy IWD!!! 🧡💙🌞 #internationalwomensday #wingwalking #periodpoverty

Spent the day yesterday back at University of Bristol for International Women’s Day to chat about all things period poverty and the impact on girls’ education 🩸 Really interesting discussion with fellow panelists period researcher Poppy Taylor, Founder & CEO of Pleasantri Adishree Bansal and Linlu Ye, Equality, Liberation & Access officer for UoB Student Union. We spoke about school absenteeism as a consequence of period poverty, how the lack of access to menstrual health education inhibits women and girls from seeking the help they need and how involving men and boys in the menstrual health conversation is crucial to ending the stigma. Thank you for having me back University of Bristol 🧡💙🌞

Day 5 of celebrating the incredible women involved in The Pachamama Project in the lead up to International Women’s Day 🧡💙🌞 🇱🇧Today we have the incredible Mariam Al Jabaly pharmacist and Pachamama menstrual health coordinator in Lebanon. I met Mariam in 2023 during a trip to Lebanon and knew instantly she had to join the Pachamama family. Since then she has hosted countless menstrual health education workshops and sorted countless reusable pads! 🇱🇧 Here’s what Mariam had to say: “A girl’s future should never be put on hold because of her period. Through open conversations and education, we are breaking the silence, replacing stigma with knowledge, and ensuring every girl understands her body with confidence. This is the work I love, and that’s why I became part of Pachamama—providing reusable pads as a sustainable solution and equipping girls with the right knowledge to create lasting change that empowers them for life.” #periodpoverty #reusablepads #internationalwomensday