The founder and CEO of #AgainstPeriodPoverty, Lindsay Adams, has been named a Global Finalist in the Agent of Change category of the 2026 She Inspires Awards based in the United Kingdom, and is also a finalist in the Community Builders category of the Good Hope FM Warrior Women 2026 Awards.
Her organisation focuses on tackling period poverty by providing sanitary products, menstrual health education, and free sanitary pad vending machines at schools (“Portland High pupil turns period-poverty concern into sanitary-pad drive” September 1).
From two girls to 167 schools
Adams started #AgainstPeriodPoverty in 2019 after two young girls in her community missed school because they could not afford sanitary pads. The initiative has since grown to support 167 schools, with vending machines now also installed at Floreat Primary School in Steenberg and Ladismith Secondary School.
The latest recognition comes after Adams was named Heart FM Women of the Year 2026 and received the Women at Heart Community Champion Award (“Lindsay Adams recognised for work tackling period poverty” September 3).
“For me, these awards are so much bigger than my name. They represent every girl and woman we have reached through #AgainstPeriodPoverty – every school, every community, every conversation and every life touched,” Adams previously told Plainsman.
Expanding access and dignity
Her work has expanded beyond Mitchells Plain into communities where access to menstrual products remains a challenge.
Adams has previously described the organisation’s first sanitary pad vending machine at Rocklands Primary School as being about “not just installing a vending machine but instilling hope”, (“Rocklands Primary School takes a stand against period poverty with new vending machine” August 15 2025).
The organisation aims to expand its vending-machine rollout, develop a student ambassador network, have menstrual health incorporated into the national curriculum and advocate for free menstrual hygiene products through national policy.
For Adams, the latest recognition is another reason to continue tackling period poverty.
“To be recognised as both Community Champion and Women of the Year for 2026, and as a global nominee and finalist, is incredibly humbling. But more so, 167-plus reasons to keep going,” she said.
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