Celebrating five years of Dignity!
This month we celebrated five years of Dignity! ⠀⠀From a conversation between two friends in a flat in Pōneke in 2017 to a team of five, a warehouse of period products, and over 200 Impact and Give...
Voices of Dignity: Lucy Revill
Kia ora Lucy, can you tell us a bit about yourself? I’m the founder and chair of Soap For Society which is a charity devoted to helping people access to basic bathroom products, no matter what thei...
Voices of Dignity: Arina Aizal
Kia ora Arina, can you tell us a bit about yourself? Kia ora! I’m Arina Aizal, based in Dunedin and working at Otago Access Radio as the community connector and youth coordinator. My job is to empo...
Lockdown virtual visit with Dignity's general manager Anika Speedy
As we all respond to the current health situation here in Aotearoa we thought we would take you behind the scenes and show you a little of the world of our co-founders and general manager during th...
Lockdown virtual visit with Dignity co-founder Miranda Hitching
As we all respond to the current health situation here in Aotearoa we thought we would take you behind the scenes and show you a little of the world of our co-founders and general manager during th...
Lockdown virtual visit with Dignity co-founder Jacinta Gulasekharam
As we all respond to the current health situation here in Aotearoa we thought we would take you behind the scenes and show you a little of the world of our co-founders and general manager during th...
Voices of Dignity: Claire Stuart
Tell us about yourself.I met my husband at intermediate school at age 12 and we’ve been together ever since. It’s our 18-year wedding anniversary this year, and we have two amazing kids Micah 9 and...
Dignity Co-Founder Jacinta Gulasekharam on What It Takes to Start Your Own Social Enterprise
Earlier this year our Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced that New Zealand schools would offer free period products as of this June, acknowledging that one in twelve young New Zealanders miss s...
Staff Interview - Introducing Bridget Berry
We are pleased to introduce our newest team member Bridget Berry. Bridget joins us as our communications intern working alongside Suni and Anika to share the Dignity story with you and extend our i...
How a Lack of Period Education Left Me in Hospital – Sophie Steel
I was only 10 years old when I got my first period. So, by the time I was 16, I was over it. I was over the heavy bleeding, the 10-day long periods and the irregularities in my cycle. Like seriousl...
Voices of Dignity: Rose McCarthy-Bain
1. What does the word Dignity mean to you?To me, dignity is about respect – and others honoring that level of respect. The respect that becomes dignity if often in the way we are towards ourselves ...
It is wonderful to see the uptake of nearly 1,600 schools and Kuru opting into the provision of free pads and tampons to schools. Dignity acknowledges the vision and ambition of associate Education...
