Events

Family Festival

During the past weekend, the school hosted a family festival where GEP was able to create a stall that allowed us to help sell the freedom cups to the wider UWCSEA community. During this time, we were able to share our message regarding period poverty, our goals, what...

International Woman’s Day Assembly

In order to celebrate International Women's Day (IWD) GEP helped create and run an assembly along with other focus groups to advocate and share the focus group's goals and missions, During this assembly, we were able to share our mission and what we have been doing in...

Guest Speakers

Within the UWC Community, many individuals are passionate about mental health and the concepts surrounding the general idea of what menstrual health is worldwide. During one of our sessions, we were fortunate to have two guest speakers share their voices on the topic,...

Human Rights Day Discussion Panel

This year we were fortunate to be a part of the human Rights Day Discussion Panel to acknowledge the UN Human Rights day, which falls on the 10th of December. During this discussion, there were a series of focus groups within the community, Equality, Voices for...

International Women’s Day

This year we took part in planning and organising an International Women’s Day event at our school in collaboration with a couple of other focus groups. Our goal was to honour and raise awareness about influential women who changed the global scene of their time. The...

Our very first event!

At 5pm in the Black Box on the 18th of September, we finally hosted our very own event! The event involved a screening of the Academy Award winning film, Period End of Sentence. The short film revolves around the stigmatization of periods in rural India where men, and...

Kahaani

We did a fund-raising event (Kahaani) through Kolkata GC. We helped provide cold Masala chai for audience and dancers before, during intermission, and after the performance. Prior to Kahaani, we held meetings with their chairman and discussed their plans and how we...

Our video and the reflection for Human Rights Day

For Human Rights Day we wanted to make a campaign that allowed people to reflect on their lives, specifically, the things they take for granted. At one of the Service tech meetings we were shown a video campaign by a Miami University called the Dear World Project that...

Family Festival

During the family fest, we had the opportunity to partner with Freedom Cups, to sell menstrual cups to those who were present on the day. We sold mainly to adult females, many of which were teachers at the school who were inspired by our speeches which took place...