Y MagazineY Magazine

Saving Days: Ending Period Poverty with Days for Girls

View descriptionShare

Y Magazine

Welcome to the Y Magazine podcast, bringing you ideas, stories, and voices from Brigham Young University (BYU). New episodes post biweekly on Thursday 
35 clip(s)
Loading playlist

When Celeste Humphrey Mergens (’81) found out that girls in Kenya were trying to manage their periods with pieces of cardboard, she immediately began looking for solutions. She discovered that girls and women all around the world were missing weeks out of every year due to period poverty.

Mergens’s solution? A nonprofit called Days for Girls.

In this episode of the Y Magazine podcast, host Whitney Singley Archibald (BA ’01) talks with Mergens and current Days for Girls CEO Tiffany Niland Larson (BA ’02) about how the nonprofit is working to end period poverty, advocate for menstrual health, and reach every girl. Everywhere. Period.

This episode is based in the article “Reclaiming Days for Girls,” written Andrew T. Bay (BA ’91, MA ’94), which appeared in the spring 2024 issue of Y Magazine.

Check out another episode about humanitarian outreach: Students Engineer Prosthetic Solution for Ecuador.

If you’re enjoying this podcast, we’d appreciate your feedback so we can make more of the types of episodes you like best. Take the survey.

Subscribe on Apple PodcastsSpotify, or YouTube. New episodes post on the first and third Thursdays of each month.

  • Facebook
  • X (Twitter)
  • WhatsApp
  • Email
  • Download

In 1 playlist(s)

  1. Y Magazine

    35 clip(s)

Y Magazine

Welcome to the Y Magazine podcast, bringing you ideas, stories, and voices from Brigham Young Univer 
Social links
Follow podcast
Recent clips
Browse 35 clip(s)