Empowering communities and NGOs

According to UNICEF, 9 out of 10 girls in Mexico experience abuse by a boyfriend or husband and many others face violence and harassment in school, at home, at work and in public places. Given this, Essity’s Mexican feminine care brand, Saba, partnered with UNICEF to provide accurate information and foster an open dialogue among adolescents, their families and friends to detect and prevent high risk situations before they spiral into violence. The initiative, called “#Hablemos Todo” (“Let´s talk about everything”), has reached 7.5 million adolescents through social media actions, communications platforms, as well as messages printed on actual feminine care pads.

Essity is one of the most significant partners of the French Red Cross thanks to the 100,000 hygiene kits distributed to homeless people every year. Since 2011, more than 850,000 hygiene kits have been distributed by volunteers to the homeless in France courtesy of Essity. These kits – which are different for women and men – include essential products to enable good hygiene for one person for several days, containing such items as a toothbrush, toothpaste, soap, shampoo, comb, mirror, Lotus handkerchiefs, Nana feminine hygiene pads, etc.