Les Dames of Cullman Presents:
Witches Ride
October 22, 3PM - 5:30PM
Warehouse District - Cullman, AL
Why This Event Matters:
1 in 4 middle and high school young women in Cullman County live in poverty making it difficult to acquire simple necessities like feminine hygiene products, pads, tampons, panty liners, new underwear in case of accidents, body and face wash, deodorant and other items that most of us would deem essential.
The rate of young girls experiencing their periods without proper preparation or education is on the rise. The reaction to this is hyper embarrassment and many young women across the nation miss up to 20% of the school year due to not having essential products during their periods. This causes truancy at minimum and hopelessness within the next generation of women—affecting their confidence and body health.
The average student who has a period uses 300 feminine products per year.
How much impact will you make:
For every woman who signs up a young women in Cullman will have the feminine hygiene products she needs for the whole year! Your donation of $50 per Witch offers you a Sunday afternoon filled with Family Friendly FUN- live music by Avenue G, adult and kids “Witches Brews”, bouncy house, food trucks and a chance to parade around with your girl friends dressed as witches throwing candy to our kids and husbands and families! What could be more fun?
What To expect:
Expect that you and every woman who likes to have fun we can get our hands on to be there with you dressed as a Witch!!! We encourage you to get a group of 4-8 women together and dress as a theme- if you Google “witches ride” I assure you will find plenty of inspiration!!! So come ready to have fun, make memories with the ladies who love and support you, as we all join forces to support the next generation of women. Together, we will build a bridge between what they have and what they need. Not many people like to talk about “that time of month” or having a period. But as women, we all know if happens every month. Let’s make sure every young woman in Cullman has the essentials to confidently go to school with the right feminine hygiene!
Register For The 2023 Witches Ride in Cullman, AL
This is a 100% Tax Deductible 501c3 Donation
In our experience the Women of Cullman are GENEROUS and love having fun! We thought we would create an event that invites all the women of Cullman to do BOTH!
Gather all of your favorite witches and gather around your brooms or bikes or golf carts or just throw on the your favorite sneakers as we dress up as Witches for the sake of a good cause! We will be shutting down the streets in the Warehouse District Sunday October 30, from 3pm-5:30pm! This is a family friendly event where all your little goblins are welcome! Husbands, kids, grandkids, nieces and nephews and friends of all ages! The Witches Ride will be a lot like a parade down the center of 1st Ave in the Warehouse District under the twinkling lights! We will throw out candy parade style. There will be food trucks, bouncy houses and other kid activities as well as a live band and some “witches brews” waiting for us after our “broom ride”!
The BEST PART: for every woman who registers we will be able to supply a young women within the Cullman County school systems with the feminine hygiene products she needs for the entire 2022-2023 school year!!! By signing up your GENEROSITY will give a local young Les Dame (lady) the dignity of having what she needs that time of month.
We believe we can solve this problem by creating feminine resource closets in every school in Cullman County. We believe the least of these deserve the very BEST we can offer—this means building a bridge to meet the needs of those we know do not have essentials.
We believe a rough average of $70 per student is needed to fund this effort—the amount necessary to build a bridge between what they have and what they need as it relates to feminine hygiene products.
We estimate there are approximately 1,987 young women this school year who will have feminine hygiene needs that will not be met. (*2020 census)
An estimated 1,987 young women in need throughout the course of a year at $50 per young woman puts our goal just under $100,000. We can do this. Especially with all you Witches.
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