Club week video
About the club
The Helping Hands project is designed to show fellow students the unique pressures faced by vulnerable populations in the Montreal area. Thousands of women must choose between necessary expenditures, such as food and medication, and essential hygiene products. We provide women from vulnerable populations with basic necessities in the form of feminine hygiene kits. We give our kits to women who are newly landed immigrants, homeless, marginally housed and living with HIV or other viral illnesses. In a reusable bag, our kits contain sanitary napkins, tampons, wet wipes, panty liners, soap, toothpaste, toothbrush, floss, hand cream, shampoo, deodorant, and condoms. Helping Hands has already donated to the Native Women’s Shelter, the Chronic Viral Illness Clinic (CVIS, Glen Hospital), CLSC Parc-Extension, Centre des femmes de Montréal, Logifem, and multiple other shelters in Montreal.
Contact information
Role | Person | Contact |
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Co-President | Ranuka Sivanathan, class of 2024 | ranuka.sivanathan@mail.mcgill.ca |
Co-President | Adalet Bugra, class of 2025 | adalet.bugra@mail.mcgill.ca |
VP Community Outreach | Genevieve Mylocopos, class of 2024 | genevieve.mylocopos@mail.mcgill.ca |
VP Fundraising | Sam Amar, class of 2026 | sam.amar@mail.mcgill.ca |
VP Finance | Wen (Emily) Zhang, class of 2026 | wen.zhang5@mail.mcgill.ca |
VP Marketing | Jennifer Merariu, class of 2024 | jennifer.merariu@mail.mcgill.ca |
VP Internal | Julianne Cairns, class of 2025 | julianne.cairns@mail.mcgill.ca |
Med-3 Rep | Maha Hammoud, class of 2024 | maha.hammoud@mail.mcgill.ca |
Med-2 Rep | Alicia Belaiche, class of 2025 | alicia.belaiche@mail.mcgill.ca |
Med-1 Rep | Shaainthabie Karthigesu, class of 2026 | shaainthabie.karthigesu@mail.mcgill.ca |
Dent Rep | Sarah Loran, class of 2024 | sarah.loran@mail.mcgill.ca |