Monarègles
(formerly Red Box Project Monaco)
What is Monarègles?
Monarègles is a community-based, not-for-profit initiative, which aims to support young people throughout their periods by providing free period products to local schools and encouraging more information about periods, while distributing First Period Kits to students.
Monarègles also has a series of corporate partners in Monaco, who provide free organic period products to their team members.
Our aim is to make Monaco the first period equal country in the world, join us in our mission!
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Some of the facts
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In some countries women and young girls who menstruate are ostracised from basic activities, such as eating certain foods or socialising. (Global Citizen)
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Cultural shame attached to menstruation and a shortage of resources stop women/girls/menstruating individuals from going to school and working every day. (Global Citizen)
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In in the UK, 1/10 girls (1/7 in London) cannot afford period products. (Plan International UK)
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Thanks to SheCanHeCan, four schools in Monaco provide free period products for their students: The International School of Monaco, FANB, Charles III and Lycée Albert 1er. (SheCanHeCan, as of Oct. 2024).
MONAREGLES (formerly the Red Box Project Monaco)
Monarègles was launched by SheCanHeCan in 2019 to promote period equality and improve access to free menstrual products in schools and workplaces across Monaco.
What began in partnership with the International School of Monaco has since expanded to include awareness workshops, educational resources, and student-led initiatives encouraging open conversations around periods. In 2021, SheCanHeCan published the guide “Everything You Need to Know About Periods” to support young people and foster healthier discussions on menstrual health.
Today, Monarègles works with schools, companies, and institutions to provide free eco-friendly period products and help normalise menstrual health in everyday environments.
Current partners include the Centre Hospitalier Princesse Grace, SBM, SBM Offshore, the Columbus Hotel, and several schools, including FANB (Monaco), Lycée Albert 1er (Monaco), Collège Charles III, The International School of Monaco and Aiglon College, Switzerland, both in Monaco and abroad.
Want to sign up or simply learn more about Monarègles? Get in touch with us!
Images: @theredboxprojectuk, Collège FANB, and Monarègles First Period Kit
Where can I learn more?
Watch Vibeke Thomsen, Director of SheCanHeCan, interview to mark the International Day for Menstrual Health. She talks about Monarègles, how to break the taboos around periods, how to support young people on their periods and so much more!
Benoite Rousseau de Sevelinges
Read the full interview with Benoite de Sevelinges, Director of the Centre Hospitalier Princesse Grace and our Monarègles Ambassador
How are we tackling period inequality/poverty in Monaco?
EDUCATION
LISTENING
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SheCanHeCan Student Ambassadors Program
Monarègles is also run with the help and support of Student Ambassadors in the local schools of Monaco. Together, we educate students and the Monaco community about period poverty/inequality, finding ways to listen to the questions and concerns of individuals who may be experiencing period poverty and inequality and, through fundraising providing free period products in all the girls' bathrooms with a vision to also donate boxes of period products to other schools and to women's refugee centres.
Our vision is to create a country free from period inequality and to use our position to help eliminate period poverty and inequality in the neighbouring communities and countries (France and Italy).
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To find out more or to make a donation to this project, please contact us at info@shecanhecan.org
You can also contact us on Instagram @shecan_hecan or @monaregles to learn more and support this fantastic community led project.
How did it all begin?
The Red Box Project was founded in the UK in 2017 by three friends determined to tackle period poverty and ensure that no young person misses school because they cannot afford menstrual products. What began with a few schools in Portsmouth quickly grew into a nationwide movement supporting access to free period products in schools.
Following years of advocacy alongside campaign partners such as Free Periods, the UK Government introduced a national scheme providing free menstrual products in schools and colleges across England. Today, The Red Box Project continues to raise awareness and promote menstrual equity for young people across the country.
You can keep up to date with The Red Box Project UK in the news section on their website.