Taking Care of Women's Business. Period.

03/11/2025

(L-R) Mike MacDonald (The Upper Room & Food Banks), received 400 lbs of feminine hygiene products from JaneEllen Boyle (Murphys Pharmacies), Carolyn MacFadyen (PEIWI VP) and Sheila Gallant (PEIWI president). This image does not contain the entire donations recently collected across PEI!

03/09/2025

We are dropping off the collection from the WI office within the week. This will be a small collection compared to what has been dropped off at Murphy's Pharmacies! The combined donations will be in stock shortly for those in need!

03/05/2025

A huge THANK YOU to Island A Ca****la, PEI's 4-part harmony Barbershop Chorus! They collected a substantial quantity of products for the 28-day campaign!

02/26/2025

And just like that two days are left in this awesome campaign. Bags of drop offs have made it to our office and to Murphy’s Pharmacies including cash donations. We look forward to dropping these off to assist others!

02/01/2025

WI’s “Taking Care of Women’s Business. Period” collection was kicked off on CBC and runs February 1-28! Read for more details!

The provincial board of PEI Women’s Institute and branches want to ensure there are enough feminine hygiene products for the ever-increasing number of clients at foodbanks across Prince Edward Island. “The need for these products remain at all time high” says WI President Sheila Gallant.

The aim of the “Taking Care of Women’s Business. Period. 28-day campaign” is to collect product or monetary donations to address the need for menstruation products for P.E.I. food banks to ensure self-respect for women is maintained.

Starting in 2015, the now annual campaign began when founding organizer Tracey Comeau read about a homeless young woman who felt as if she lost her last bit of dignity because she couldn’t afford pads or tampons during her menstrual period. Comeau was inspired to ensure PEI women and teens do not suffer the same issue. Food banks want and need feminine hygiene products resulting in the muchly needed 28 Day Campaign for Taking Care of Women's Business. In 2017, the over century old PEI Women's Institute, whose core principle is to focus on women and children, accepted the challenge to increase the campaign.

Since its in inception, the Campaign raised well over $50,000 worth of product or donation. Each year, the entire inventory collected is distributed to food banks across the Island within weeks of the collection. The PEIWI issues collections challenges to all WI branches, organizations, businesses, families, and individuals across Prince Edward Island.

Hundreds of women, not including youth, are in monthly need of items like tampons, pads or menstruation cups for women’s monthly cycles. Nancy Wu, provincial board member of the PEI Women’s Institute further indicated “supporting women this year is so very important given the issues women and their families face this year in acquiring basic needs”.

The campaign takes place this year from February 1st to the 28th. Starting Thursday, February 1, drop-off locations include any Murphy’s Pharmacy across P.E.I. (Murphy’s Pharmacies will match donations with their house brand of Options+), Main Street Pharmasave in Souris, and the WI Office at 40 Enman Crescent, in Charlottetown. Online donations can also be made online to the Upper Room Hospitality Ministry: URHM.org.

Mayte Luna (right) from the Confederation WI branch (comprised of newcomer students!) joins in on the kick off!

03/12/2024

PEI Women's Institute presented close to $5000 in feminine Hygiene Products to Food Banks from our February Campaign. On hand were Board members Carolyn MacFadyen (left), and Nancy Wu, (centre, 2nd image), Jane Ellen Boyle from Murphy's Pharmacies (central, first image), and Scott Pothier (right) from the The Upper Room Hospitality Ministry Inc. and PEI Food Banks. (It was Scott's birthday so we insisted he be in both pictures!) Special thanks to MainStreet Pharmasave in the Town of Souris for also being a collection point. Thanks to all who contributed! The need is great!

02/27/2024

Darlene Paton from Selkirk WI dropped off feminine hygiene products - their branch had collected at Souris Pharmasave. The combined collection will be picked up by Souris Food Bank for distribution! Well done everyone!

02/27/2024

02/27/2024

Thanks to Cindy MacRae and her branch, the Greater Charlottetown WI, for dropping off this great collection.

⬇️This is what close to $300 looks like in feminine hygiene products. 💰💰💰

Two days left in the campaign.

02/12/2024

A sweet woman recently dropped off her collection due to her recent hysterectomy after seeing CBC. So kind.

Collection points throughout February include the WI office at 40 Enman Crescent (Room 105), Murphy Pharmacies and Mainstreet Pharmasave in Souris.

02/08/2024

Thanks to Glenn Younker for submitting this picture of Brackley WI’s donation to the campaign this month! Send in your pictures!

02/01/2024

CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. – WI’s “Taking Care of Women’s Business. Period” collection runs February 1-29.
The provincial board of PEI Women’s Institute and branches want to ensure there are enough feminine hygiene products for the ever-increasing number of clients at foodbanks across Prince Edward Island. “It is our understanding there was some funding for these products however demand exceeds the financial allocation” says WI President Sheila Gallant.

The aim of the “Taking Care of Women’s Business. Period. 28-day campaign” is to collect product or monetary donations to address the need for menstruation products for P.E.I. food banks to ensure self-respect for women is maintained.

Starting in 2015, the now annual campaign began when founding organizer Tracey Comeau read about a homeless young woman who felt as if she lost her last bit of dignity because she couldn’t afford pads or tampons during her menstrual period. Comeau was inspired to ensure PEI women and teens do not suffer the same issue. Food banks want and need feminine hygiene products resulting in the muchly needed 28 Day Campaign for Taking Care of Women's Business. In 2017, the over century old PEI Women's Institute, whose core principle is to focus on women and children, accepted the challenge to increase the campaign.

Since its in inception, the Campaign raised well over $47,000 worth of product or donation. Each year, the entire inventory collected is distributed to food banks across the Island within weeks of the collection. The PEIWI issues collections challenges to all WI branches, organizations, businesses, families, and individuals across Prince Edward Island.

Hundreds of women, not including youth, are in monthly need of items like tampons, pads or menstruation cups for women’s monthly cycles. Nancy Wu, provincial board member of the PEI Women’s Institute further indicated “supporting women this year is so very important given the issues women and their families face this year in acquiring basic needs”.

The campaign takes place this year from February 1st to the 29th. Starting Thursday, February 1, drop-off locations include any Murphy’s Pharmacy across P.E.I. (Murphy’s Pharmacies will match donations with their house brand of Options+), Main Street Pharmasave in Souris, and the WI Office at 40 Enman Crescent, in Charlottetown. Online donations can also be made online to the Upper Room Hospitality Ministry: URHM.org.