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Supporting Offline Communities During the Pandemic: Ruby Cup and ACROSS Find Ways to Mentor Menstrual Cup Users in South Sudan

ACROSS Menstrual Hygiene Educator conducting a follow up survey with a Ruby Cup user in Mahad IDP Camp (Photo credit: Anna Abel / In Partnership...

Frontline Health Workers Receive Free Ruby Cups

More than 850 Ruby Cups have been distributed to frontline health workers across Europe and Kenya to allow them to live their periods with dignity...

Innovative Partnerships: ThoughtWorks and Ruby Cup

Understanding Impact: ThoughtWorks and Ruby Cup Come Together To Improve Data Collection Every Ruby Cup sold comes with a Buy One, Give One promise. Our...

Innovative Partnerships: Luanda International School & Ruby Cup

As part of our commitment to innovative partnerships, Ruby Cup has partnered with a student-led initiative at the Luanda International School in Angola to run...

Me and My Cup: A Toolkit For Happy Periods

We’ve been working closely with our partner organisations to create a brand new trainers toolkit - Me and My Cup. The kit consists of a...

The Future of the Menstrual Movement Lies in the Hands of the Youth

Engaging international youth workers on how to integrate menstrual health and hygiene (MHH) into their existing programs at the 2019 Period Empowerment Network Project Training...

13 things the Ruby Cup team is gifting this year

Before we go off to enjoy the holidays, Jorien and Liese, our current interns, wanted to know which gifts the Ruby Cup team will be giving...

Field Report from Malawi: the power of peer to peer training

Ruby Cup’s Regional Program Manager for East Africa, Alfred Muli, shares his field report from his recent trip to Malawi, where he spoke to five of our local...

Ruby Cup’s Team Retreat 2019: Growing stronger together

Our team has almost doubled in size this year with five new team members in Spain, Kenya and the UK. Although we all love working...

Made With Precision In China

This is the story of how we found a place that could produce our Ruby Cups to the high standard we needed.

Distributing Menstrual Cups in Kenya

100 Ruby Cups arrived in the southwestern part of rural Kenya. Ruby Cup Trainer Vanessa went there to explain the world of menstrual cups to a...

Safe and Dignified Periods for Refugee Girls in Uganda with Ruby Cup

WoMena and CARE (relief) have been collaborating on a successful menstrual cup pilot project. 100 girls and women in Imvepi Refugee Settlement in Uganda received...

Can Menstrual Health Change a Community?

The Ruby Women Group from Global One, Mathare, Kenya. The struggles of women in poverty are many. Early pregnancies being perhaps one of the better...

Ruby Cup and access to clean water: menstrual health management in regions where water is scarce

When people read about our social impact projects in low-income countries, their first question often is: but how do they boil their cups in regions when there’s...

“More powerful together” – A few thoughts on IWD2019

The United Nations’ official theme for this year’s International Women’s Day is “More Powerful Together”: a call to stand in unison for gender equality. “It...

This is how our NGO partner ‘be artsy’ fights Chhaupadi in Nepal

In 2005 the Government of Nepal declared the practice of Chhaupadi illegal, and since 2018 it has been considered a criminal offense with explicit consequences....