Two young South Australian entrepreneurs have launched their own social enterprise selling sanitary products whose profits will go to disadvantaged women fighting period poverty around the world.Two Adelaide women have started a business selling sanitary pads and tampons in AustraliaBuyers can also help disadvantaged Australian women
The products sold and distributed in Australia will raise money for One Girl — a Melbourne-based charity that educates and gives women and girls in Africa access to pads and tampons. Eloise Hall, 20, and Isobel Marshall, 21, created their not-for-profit online social enterprise called TABOO two-and-a-half years ago with little expectation, in between their studies."We thought there's such a market for pads and tampons in Australia and there's such a need overseas for menstrual health care, so let's sell products here and send our profits over there," Ms Marshall said.
"We were aware of how complicated menstrual healthcare is overseas and how much it actually disempowers women, but we also had this solution, which was to sell a product that was in high demand."