Hawai‘i State Judiciary addressing period poverty with free menstrual products

The Hawai‘i State Judiciary is stocking its buildings with free, hygienic menstrual products to address period poverty in its communities.

“We have been installing menstrual product dispensers in the first-floor women’s restrooms of courthouses across the state,” said Angela Min, Innovations Officer. “The Third Circuit courthouses in Kona and Hilo on Hawaiʻi island are now equipped with the dispensers, at no cost to the public.”

Aliʻiōlani Hale on Oʻahu, Puʻuhonua Kaulike on Kauaʻi, and Hoapili Hale and Lahaina District Courthouse on Maui also have the dispensers.

“We want to say a special mahalo to the non-profit Maʻi Movement, and its co-founder Nikki-Ann Yee who greatly assisted the Judiciary in launching this movement in our courthouses,” Min added.