Want to make an impact with your 2023 New Year’s Resolution? Start regular donations to your favourite charity!

It’s been a tough couple of years for the world, and the purse strings may be tight. But by donating as little as $7 a month to The Cova Project, you will change 12 menstruators lives for 10 years. Big bang for your buck!

It's time we come together again so we can tell you everything we've achieved in the last two years and everything that we have coming up in the next 12 months and trust me, it's a lot!

Come along on March 8th and join us, for an empowering and important night! We can’t wait to see you there!

On 30th September 2021, The Cova Project beneficiaries, Menstrual Health Champions, Civil Society Organizations, The Period Equality Network (TPEN), Development Partners, Government representatives from the Ministry of Education and Sports (MoES) gender unit Uganda, Ministry of Health Uganda and Individual Experts, from Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Sweden, Australia, India, and Zambia convened to celebrate the gains of advancing the menstrual flowcup and to listen to young women about their experiences with our program and approach.

It’s that time of year again, folks! Cup Day! And as always, The Cova Project is encouraging you to place a sure bet. November 2nd will mark The Cova Project’s third Cup Day campaign. This year, we’re saying ‘Yup to The Menstrual Cup!’ and going all out, raising money to keep thousands of girls in school and menstruating with dignity.

Australian boutique lipstick label Lou Lou Lips has created the Cova lipstick as a way to support the work of The Cova Project. We sat down with the founder of Lou Lou Lips, Louise Griffin to find out all about the lipstick, the business and what’s next for the brand.

Lockdown sucks, but movies do not! While our plans to premiere our Director’s Cut version ‘The Cova Project: Cups, Covid and Collaboration’ in Melbourne have been put on hold, we still want to share our documentary with you. To celebrate Day of The Girl Child, The Cova Project is premiering our 2020 documentary with an additional 10 minutes of new footage from our 2021 work.

Do menstrual cups really work to combat period poverty? The Cova Conference tackles this question and looks inside The Cova Project’s network which distributes menstrual cups alongside educational programs in Liberia, Ghana, Malawi and Uganda. In partnership with Irise Institute East Africa (IIEA), The Cova Conference will deliver an insightful and meaningful night.

End of Financial Year (EOFY) can be a hectic time for many; especially as the coronavirus pandemic continues to grip the world. Year on year, we hear about organisations asking for additional donations at the end of the financial year; why? Well, in Australia, donations to charities can be partly or completely tax deductible. Meaning; while you might part with some cash between now and June 30, you’ll be able to claim your donations in your tax return - amazing!

What better way is there to start a discussion then over a drink?
This Menstrual Hygiene Day (May 28) we’re taking that statement literally - by asking our supporters to make a Bloody Mary and open the discussion around menstrual health and its importance.

This month’s Cova Conversation wants to shine a spotlight on and celebrate all of the amazing work that has been happening within the space in the lead up to Menstrual Hygiene Day (May 28)! All of these amazing companies and individuals are trailblazers in the sector and are helping to de-stigmatise, educate and celebrate the magic that is periods.

For billions of girls worldwide, we all know the feeling when “that time of the month” has arrived. We groan, get up, and most likely reach for either a tampon or a pad. Every day of our cycle, we discard sanitary products without a second thought. But there is a quiet consequence to the way so many of us handle our periods: plastic.

It’s no secret stress and anxiety can seriously mess up our monthly cycle. As we all learned new terms such as “social distancing”, “essential workers”, and “flattening the curve”, it should have come as no surprise our constantly changing restrictions impacted the arrival of Aunt Flo.

After grieving the loss of my former self (before the pain took over my life), over the years I have come to relearn who I am with the condition and I have attempted to restructure my life to reflect a more manageable lifestyle. I don’t shy away from discussing endometriosis/period pain with others, in fact I invite the conversation. I am not embarrassed or afraid of what people think of me when I talk about my periods, I take the opportunity to educate others around me. I feel a sense of responsibility to share my experience with endometriosis/period pain with others in the hope it can raise awareness and create much needed discussion.

TB: That sounds incredibly difficult. How did it make you feel having all those doctors disbelieve your pain?

CD: During those years when I didn't have a diagnosis for endo, I felt like a hypochondriac. No one was believing my pain and so I started to not believe it. This sent me into a deep depression. I saw a therapist for three years trying to understand why I was "making up this pain".

While I don’t remember how the rest of the lesson played out, this sequence of events has remained imprinted in my mind. By subtly suggesting that period pain was not a valid reason to have difficulty concentrating, my teacher taught both me and my classmates that period pain was something that should go unaddressed.

We became more and more determined that the issue needed to be addressed, and I left the call committed to start a conversation around destigmatizing period pain. And thus, the Period Pain Cam-Pain was born--it’s time to end the myth that debilitating period pain is the norm for all menstruators!

“I’m not crying because I’m on my period – I’m crying because I’m inspired”. I was lucky enough to have a preview screening of The Cova Project’s new documentary and I’m here to tell you it’s a must see.