Ksan House clients have benefited from a menstrual product distribution program organized through the United Way.
Terrace is the most northern location to receive menstrual products. Quesnel is the next closest and Burnaby, Vancouver and New Westminster on the Lower Mainland filled out the list for this year.
United Way community impact director Kim Winchell said Terrace was considered one of the more underserved communities in B.C. for vulnerable people having access to menstrual products.
"So we started working with some of the community agencies up there and found Terrace would be a great fit for this project," she said.
In all, more than 28,000 pads and 5,000 tampons were distributed to agencies in the five participating cities. In Terrace, Ksan House took delivery of 1,000 pads and 600 tampons.
Winchell said this year's distribution continues an effort that began seven years ago when the United Way began hearing that poverty and other challenges were affecting people's ability to acquire suitable products.
"We're always there to fill in the gaps, so we started looking at our work," she said. "We have a strong workplace and union partnership so we started reaching out to see if they would be interested. And it just took off from there."
"We just saw mountains, literally mountains and mountains of products people were donating. Then we partnered with our more than 600 non-profit organizations to make sure they had them and were able to distribute them."
The program is provided through direct donations of products or money. Product manufacturer Proctor and Gamble also participates.
Delivery company DoorDash handled delivery to Terrace through a campaign it calls Project Dash, an effort that includes meals in areas where it is active.