Essity extends partnership with UNICEF

Essity has extended its partnership with UNICEF in Mexico for an additional three years. The agreement calls for the two organizations to promote proper hand hygiene among children and young people in Mexico.

Essity and UNICEF in Mexico will also increase dialogue about menstruation with adolescents to help dispel social taboos. Essity has partnered with the nonprofit to promote such initiatives since 2016 as part of the company’s Hygiene is Our Right program.

“I have seen with my own eyes how Hygiene is Our Right has contributed to breaking taboos surrounding menstruation by involving both boys and girls in conversations around periods and engaging local municipalities in the improvement of hand hygiene facilities. By extending our partnership with UNICEF for another three years, we are set to increase well-being and equality among children and young people in Mexico even further,” said Joséphine Edwall Björklund, Essity senior vice president of communications.