2024 | Love For Red

Period Poverty Awareness Event

08/17/2024

Community Room, West Des Moines Public Library

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Waukee Back to School Fair

08/07/2024

South Middle School, Waukee, Iowa

We’ll be at Waukee Back to school fair, spreading awareness about our org and cause.

DMRS Back to School Free Store

08/03/2024

Olmstead Center, Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa

We’ll be at DMRS Back to school free store from 10 am-2pm giving free period packs

Period Packing Party

07/15/2024

ITA Headquarters

We’ll be at ITA Group again this year helping with period packing party while their awesome employees pack all those period packs for our schools & back to school free stores that we support.

80/35

07/12/2024-07/13/2024

July 12-13, 2024
Water Works Park, Des Moines, Iowa

We’ll be at 80/35 Festival again this year to spread awareness about our organization through fun games like Spin-the-Wheel and trivia (with prizes!). We will also have raffle!!

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School Ambassadors Capitol Visit

06/14/2024

Our School Ambassadors headed to Iowa Capitol for a fun event!! They were given an Advocacy presentation and tour of the Capitol by Sen Sarah Trone Garriott. They learnt about how our legislative system works and got to see the Senate Chamber and other parts of the building!! This gives our ambassadors a good peek into the advocacy world.

CelebrAsian

05/24/2024-05/25/2024

We were at CelebrAsian Festival again this year to spread awareness about our organization through fun games like Spin-the-Wheel and trivia (with prizes!)

We spread awareness about period poverty and it’s impact, especially on students. We talked to students and families about period poverty and also played trivia with them about periods and menstrual health

Cinco De Mayo

05/04/2024

We were at Cinco de Mayo on May 04, 2024
137 5th Street, West Des Moines, Iowa 50265, United States

We were at Cinco De Mayo Festival again this year to spread awareness about our organization through fun games like Spin-the-Wheel and trivia (with prizes!)

We spread awareness about period poverty and it’s impact, especially on students. We talked to students and families about period poverty and also played trivia with them about periods and menstrual health

L4R X SASA Period & Repro Kit Packing

04/07/2024

April 7th, 2-4 PM
PBB Room C125

SASA and Love For Red Iowa City team will be hosting a period product and reproductive kit packing event!

Community Fair at East High School

03/06/24

We were at East High School – Des Moines Community Fair

We gave away over 500 period products in form of period packs!!

We spread awareness about period poverty and it’s impact, especially on students. We talked to students and families about period poverty and also played trivia with them about periods and menstrual health.

Period Packing Party @ITA Group

02/29/24

ITA employees helped pack over 750 period packs using over 11k period products!

Thank you to ITA Women’s Leadership Group for doing this again this year for us! They ran a donation drive for couple weeks to collect the needed products and those products were majorly used during the packing party! Thank you to all their employees who volunteered to make this event possible❣️

These period packs will be donated to several schools in Iowa that our organization supports.

Day on the Hill: Legislative Day

02/15/24

Love For Red took on the Iowa State Capitol in Des Moines! This was our second year in our advocacy journey! We spoke with many Iowa State Senators about legislation regarding free menstrual products for schools in Iowa. Thank you to everyone who talked to us and thank you to everyone who advocated with us! It was such a great experience and we cannot wait to dive more into our advocacy journey!