Sylvia's Sisters

End Period Poverty

News & Events

Questions about periods?

Leave a Comment

Need help talking openly with girls about menstruation and menstrual hygiene? Join Jennifer Taylor, president of Sylvia’s Sisters; Jennifer Gaines, program director of Alliance for Period Supplies; and Dr. Jellisa Timmons, family practitioner, St. Francis Medical Centers. They’ll provide expert guidance and answer your questions, so you can answer theirs!

Hosted by Pamunkey Regional Library. Registration is required. This program is hosted virtually through Zoom and the meeting link will be sent to the email registered 1 day before the event occurs. If you don’t receive your reminder email on Wednesday, November 3, please contact the library.

Register online.

Sylvia’s Cyclones: Getting Active to Raise Money and Awareness

Leave a Comment

Heidi Alvarez

In order to bring awareness to our cause we decided to get moving! We started our very first biking challenge. As newbies to the non-profit “challenge” event we were needlessly nervous about its success. This event was so fun and energetic. Everyone upped their game doing many more miles and getting many more donations than expected! For next year, we may be expanding the event to include running or walking or any kind of activity you like. This event is all about personal challenges. You set your goal and make it happen!

We hope you will join us when we do it again in April 2022.

Students Form PERIOD Chapter

Leave a Comment

In 2020, Maggie Walker students partnered with Sylvia’s Sisters to help get legislation passed at the state level requiring public schools to provide free period products in restrooms. Those students have now established a chapter of PERIOD, a national organization committed to fighting period poverty and stigma through service, education, and advocacy.

Read more about their efforts.

World U.P. Interview

Leave a Comment

Sylvia’s Sisters partnered with World U.P. to distribute feminine hygiene products through their Mobile Produce Pantry. Community partners are critical to our success. World U.P. interviewed Jennifer Taylor, Sylvia’s Sisters president, about her life, mission, values and the importance of community.

Check out the interview here.

Donating to Petersburg, Virginia

Success! Virginia Senate passes proposal to require period supplies in school bathrooms

Leave a Comment

The Virginia legislature passed a proposal that would require free period supplies to be available in all public school restrooms. The success of this initiative is due in large part to determined lobbying by Sylvia’s Sisters and their partners. Jennifer Taylor, president, spoke to the Times-Dispatch about the initiative.

Read more in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.