One in four
Students Left or Missed School Because they Didn’t have Period Products.
This Year. In America.
We are The Women’s Society.
The Kwek Society works to end period poverty in Indigenous communities in the United States while celebrating individual dignity, agency, and success.
We provide Indigenous students and their peers, as well as certain Indigenous communities, period care items, including our moon time bags filled with supplies.
We curate and share widely period education materials and traditional, Indigenous teachings about periods that center menstruators.
And we work to shine a light on the inequities experienced by those we help.
Together we can end period poverty for Indigenous communities. Learn more about how you can help today.
We at The Kwek Society, an Indigenous-led and -focused nonprofit, are grateful to work from the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Doeg, the Piscataway, and the Nacotchtank, among other Indigenous peoples and other-than-human relations here since time immemorial.
We acknowledge and greet our relatives — the diverse and vibrant Indigenous people and relations who make their home here alongside us. We, as Indigenous people, are dedicated to sustaining our identity, sovereignty, and self-determination. We are still here.
We intend that this land and relatives’ acknowledgement will spark among all who interact with us territory awareness, as well as recognition of and respect for all the Indigenous people and other-than-human relatives in our communities.