Initiatives
May 14th: Care Packages
On May 14th, She Helps Her is hosting a care packaging event where we plan on making 100 care packages to donate to a local women's shelter.
She Helps Her X DVHS Interact
She Helps Her is currently working with the Dougherty Valley High School Interact chapter to host a drive for the Interact members. The drive ends on May 20th and is being collected in room 4209.
Her Health Initiative
She Helps Her co-founders Gisela Liu, Sindhoori Kalavacharla, and Suhani Akhouri brought She Helps Her to school by hosting a drive called the Her Health Initiative at Dougherty Valley High School. The drive is still collecting items till May 13th in room 1220.
YA4C X She Helps Her
She Helps Her teamed up with Youth Advocates for Change, a nationwide youth-led nonprofit created to amplify youth voices & inspire local action through the intersections of social justice to hold a Menstrual Supply Drive for Womens Month. The drive took place in march 2021 collecting over 1,900 items for the Courageous Women Association, a shelter in Oakland, California and the Women's Daytime Drop-In in Berkeley, California.
She Helps Her X DVHS CSF
She Helps Her collaborated with Dougherty Valley High School's CSF chapter in January 2021 to hold a drive collecting toiletries and sanitary products. The drive collected over 2,400 items which were later donated to the Courageous Women Association, a women's shelter in Oakland, California.
She Helps Her collaborated with Dougherty Valley High School's CSF chapter a second time in March 2021 collecting over 2,600 items and a third time in March 2022 collecting over 3,800 items.
Breast Cancer Card Drive
She Helps Her held a Card writing drive for Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October 2020. This event was an opportunity to help women recently diagnosed with breast cancer by providing them words of encouragement! We donated over 30 cards from the campaign and can't wait to hold this drive again this year.
The Speaker Series
She Helps Her held a speaker series with 3 wonderful speakers, Fatima Rahim a Pre-med student at NYU, Emily Gao a Pre-med student at UCLA (Regents' Scholar)
and Eshita Sharmin a Med Student at AUC School of Medicine to aid those who are interested in learning more about medical school, applying, and finding a major. The event was held on July 20th, July 23rd, and July 25th 2020
Appilyday
She Helps Her collaborated with Appilyday and 30 other nonprofit youth initiatives across the world in June 2020 to work on a video project. The purpose of this project was to educate under-represented people and non-native English speakers on the basic knowledge of COVID-19.
We would like to quickly thank Appilyday for including us in this initiative and letting us contribute to this amazing cause!
If you want to be a part of projects like this, contact Appilyday on Instagram @appilyday and visit their website www.appilyday.com!