The Rev’d Suzanne M. Coles started the Tampon Trunk at St. Philip’s Church in Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, where she is priest-in-charge, after two mothers approached her on the street at the start of the pandemic asking for help buying tampons for their adolescent daughters, and then around Thanksgiving 2020, a third mother came to her parish requesting similar help.
“I knew we had to do something locally about it,” Culhane said.
Since then the St. Philip's parish family has continued to collect and distribute menstrual hygeine products.