Who We Are
Bear Earth CIC is a non-profit organisation dedicated to combating hygiene poverty and promoting menstrual and personal hygiene education for women and girls worldwide.
Founded by Zinthiya Ganeshpanchan, Bear Earth was born from a simple truth: in Sri Lanka, one pack of sanitary products costs around 200 rupees - the equivalent of half a day's wage. For millions of women in refugee camps, rural communities, plantations, prisons, and urban slums, access to basic menstrual hygiene products remains out of reach.
Through our sanitary product subscription service and dignity kits, we raise funds to support educational initiatives that empower women and girls - fostering a more equitable and informed global community. Our approach is rooted in sustainability and social responsibility, and 100% of our profits are reinvested into educational outreach and community impact programmes.
How Bear Earth Fights Period Poverty
Throughout the world, women and girls continue to use rags, toilet tissues, and other makeshift alternatives because they cannot afford menstrual products. In displacement camps, the situation is even worse - women and girls sometimes trade sex in return for period products.
Bear Earth works to change this. With funds raised through our hygiene kits, subscriptions, and partnerships, we reach out to communities where sanitary products are inaccessible - including refugee camps, rural areas where aid does not reach, plantations, prisons, and slums where life is a daily struggle.
The problem also exists closer to home. Those working on our community project say many girls in the UK miss school for up to a week every month because they cannot afford period products, or because of cultural beliefs and stigma around menstruation.
Bear Earth provides dignity kits and education to help women manage menstrual hygiene safely, hygienically, and with confidence.
Subscribe to Make a Difference Every Month
Monthly subscriptions deliver sanitary products discreetly to your door and every subscription directly funds dignity kits and menstrual education for women and girls who need them most.
Would you rather make a monthly donation instead of receiving products? You can support our mission without subscribing, every contribution helps us distribute dignity kits to women and girls in crisis.
How Your Business Can Support Bear Earth
If you are a humanitarian agency, you can support our work by ordering dignity kits tailored to your needs. If you are a business, you can purchase our business subscription packs and receive a bespoke marketing bundle showing your company supports Bear Earth.
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"Bear Earth has been started with one goal: to work towards ending period poverty by educating and equipping the females of our world to embrace something which is so natural and normal. We also accept donations of period products that will be distributed to women and girls in the UK via the Zinthiya Trust through the food banks and the community shop" — Zinthiya Ganeshpanchan, Founder, Bear Earth CIC
Where Bear Earth Operates
Bear Earth is headquartered in Leicester, UK, and operates both locally and internationally. Our work spans communities where menstrual hygiene products are hardest to access from refugee and displacement camps to rural areas, plantations, prisons, and urban slums.
In the UK, we work through the Zinthiya Trust to distribute products via food banks and community shops, reaching women and girls who cannot afford period products. Internationally, we partner with organisations aligned with our mission to deliver dignity kits and menstrual health education where they are needed most.
Our Promise
Freedom from hygiene poverty
Fighting for women
Provide hygiene and sanitary products to those who do not have access to them
