For My Sisters founder Megan Harrison has a simple, yet significant goal she is aiming to achieve for the female workforce across Australia.
For My Sisters founder Megan Harrison has a simple, yet significant goal she is aiming to achieve for the female workforce across Australia.
Ms Harrison founded For My Sisters two and a half years ago in a bid to provide period care products for women on mine sites, in workplaces and sporting clubs, on the back of hearing a remarkable story.
“For My Sisters was born from a night out with friends,” she said.
“And one of the girls was telling me that she’d been at a board meeting during the week and she’d gone downstairs and unexpectantly got her period.
“She was stressing out and didn’t know what to do. She didn’t know whether to run across to the BP service station and try and find something.
“And then by a stroke of luck, she decided to open the cupboard in the disabled toilet, and there was a box of tampons in there with a post-it note sticking out of it saying ‘for my sisters’.
“She was telling me this story and it gave us all goosebumps. This one small act of kindness was so amazing.
“And she then proceeded to say to me that it literally felt like it was one of the best days of her life.
“I thought to myself, that’s not good enough that a woman having access to a tampon can possibly be rated as one of the best days of her life.
“It really made me question a lot of things and I woke up the next morning, thinking ‘You know what? I’m going to try and do something about this’
“And For My Sisters was born. Really and ultimately, I’m on a mission for every workplace to provide period care like it would soap or toilet paper.”
Earlier this week it was announced that For My Sisters had signed a partnership with the Perth Football League, a deal welcomed by both Ms Harrison and PFL chief executive Andrew Dawe.
Under the deal, in 2025 every PFL women’s team will receive free For My Sisters period care kits, which can be stored in changerooms and first aid kits for both game and training commitments.
Coupled with this, participating PFL clubs will also be able to capitalise on a competition-wide discount on all products until the end of 2026.
“It was probably only about six to eight weeks ago,” Ms Harrison told Business News.
“Nick Rynne (Playbookx) had actually seen some stuff that I was doing on Linkedin and reached out and asked whether I’d thought about going down the partnerships route.
“We had a chat about how it could be a good alignment. My mission is to get into every workplace, but at the same time, these sporting clubs are workplaces for a lot of these women.
“Just because you’re at footy training, your period doesn’t go away.
“And I’m also sponsoring the Claremont WAFLW team, so it kind of linked in nicely with that as well.”
“It’s just a no-brainer right,” Mr Dawe said when discussing the partnership.
“We’re trying to help grow these clubs and female participation has been growing. It’s probably on the verge of sort of plateauing at the moment.
“But what we need to ensure is these clubs are inviting and not places which are scary to come to.
“And if there’s things which need to be available for female football, then we need to ensure they are readily and easily available with no stigma attached to it.
“For me, it was a no-brainer and we’re really excited about the partnership. I think our clubs are really excited about it as well because it is zero touch for them; they just receive the boxes of the products.
“The clubs then have the opportunity if they want to keep going with it.”
