Our Programs
Path & Green started in 2021, serving girls in need during the second semester of the 2021-2022 school year. We partner with local schools and community-serving organizations to provide three free programs that meet girls’ basic hygiene needs with dignity and compassion.
Learn about our three programs below.
Personal Care Bag Program
The program supports high school girls who need* assistance", offering them up to fourteen personal care items each semester, including hair, skin, and oral hygiene products, as well as four months of menstrual supplies. Items are tailored to individual needs and delivered directly to students at their schools.
Essential Care Bag Program
This program supports girls in grades 6-8 who need* assistance. Girls can customize their order for eight key hygiene items: shampoo, conditioner, soap, deodorant, toothbrush, toothpaste, floss, and lip balm. It also provides a four-month supply of menstrual products to help support health and dignity.
Scroll below to read a beautiful poem about what our girls experience on a daily basis without our program.
Hygiene Kit Bag Program
This program provides all 5th-grade girls who have completed their school’s puberty curriculum with essential hygiene items, including deodorant, soap, a toothbrush, toothpaste, floss, and menstrual pads. Each kit also includes an educational brochure, a period bag, a luxury item, and a note of encouragement.
90% of our clients would run out of hygiene items if not for Path & Green.
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90% of our clients would run out of hygiene items if not for Path & Green. 〰️
Clean is a Kind of Dignity
Written By: Naya Reed-Martin
Former recipient of Path & Green
In the quiet of the morning, before the world awakes,
She folds her hands and prays the shame will break.
Soap, a luxury. Deodorant, a dream.
Toothpaste is rationed like a war-time scheme.
The mirror reflects not just her face,
But the burden of poverty, hard to erase.
In locker rooms, whispers float like air,
“She smells again,” as if she weren’t there.
Clean is not just comfort it’s a shield, a skin,
A line between being welcome or shut in.
A child too young should not have to learn
That hygiene has a price she cannot earn.
But then a box, a bag, a knock at the door,
Not charity, but dignity, restored once more.
From hands that care, not pity or pride,
A program stands where shame used to hide.
A toothbrush offered without a sneer,
A bar of soap saying, “You matter here.”
Tampons, mouthwash, shampoo, pads
Hope can come in paper bags.
For what is clean but a kind of grace,
A way to feel human, to take up space?
Not lesser, not dirty, not brushed aside,
But worthy, with heads held high in stride.
To those who give without a name,
You fight the filth of stigma and shame.
You see the soul beneath the grime,
And remind the world: “They’re worth the time.”
So may these acts keep rising like the sun
Until clean is free, for everyone.
Not just for the rich, not just a few