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One organization is helping to alleviate the high cost of menstruation for homeless women. 

Volunteers for nonprofit Happy Period hand out feminine hygiene products to homeless women in shelters and on the street.

About once a month, people gather at the nonprofit’s nine chapters in the U.S. and Canada to collect donated menstrual products. They assemble them into individual kits, and then give them to local shelters or to women living on the streets.

Each kit has four tampons, five pads, two wipes, five pantyliners, one soap and one pair of underwear.

Homeless women often can’t afford menstrual hygiene products and shelters rarely get donations of pads and tampons even though they’re in high demand. 

“A lot of us don’t think about the fact that homeless people get their periods,” founder Chelsea VonChaz told The Huffington Post. “We all have periods ― but for some reason we don’t think about it in terms of those less fortunate. This is a real issue of women’s rights.”

VonChaz recognized the problem last year, when she was driving to work in Los Angeles and noticed a woman, who appeared to be homeless, with blood-stained bottoms. She called a local shelter to ask if it provided menstrual products to residents. The staff member said the shelter offered them, but only when available.

“They said they were more likely to get donations of food, clothes, money ― even toothbrushes or razor blades ― than pads and tampons,” VonChaz said. That’s how the seed was planted.”

She started gathering friends on weekends to hand out menstrual products to homeless women on L.A.’s Skid Row, an area known for its overwhelming homeless population. By June 2015, she registered Happy Period as a nonprofit, and expanded the project to nine cities across the U.S. and Canada.

From Miami and Atlanta, to Toronto and New York, around 15 to 60 volunteers gather anywhere from once a month to once every three months. 

Since the project launched last year, the organization has donated an estimated 6,000 kits to homeless women. 

For VonChaz, giving out menstrual products in the streets is key to reaching homeless women who may choose not to stay in shelters, as well as transgender individuals who can sometimes have a hard time finding shelter matching their gender identity.

“I’ve heard stories of transgender men not being allowed in women’s shelters ― so they don’t have access to the places that might give menstrual products out,” VonChaz said. “If you are a trans man and you still have your period, it’s a struggle.”

VonChaz’s goal is to keep growing the Happy Period volunteer network, and eventually become a “middle woman” between menstrual product companies and those in need of their items.

“I could do this forever,” VonChaz said. “I want this to be a movement.”

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Backpacks are pretty dope.

We’ve already told you that anyone can rock a backpack, but it can be hard to find the right one ― especially in your price point. In light of it being back-to-school season, we’ve rounded up some of our favorite “cool kid” packs that’ll look good both in class and out.

1. Everlane The Modern Commuter Backpack ($68)

 2. Ban.do Get It Together Backpack in Lady of Leisure and Bingo ($65 each)

 3. Silence + Noise Sloane Simple Backpack ($54)

 4. ASOS Backpack in Marble Print ($36)

5. Charles & Keith Two-Way Backpack ($79)

 6. Topshop Textured Faux Leather Backpack ($68)

 7. American Eagle Parkland Meadow Backpack ($47.95)

8. Sole Society Backpack ($54.95)

9. Herschel Dawson Backpack in Natural Code/Tan Synthetic Leather ($64.99)

10. French Connection Perry Bag ($78)

11. Forever 21 Faux Leather Sling Backpack ($27.90)

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Parrot’s beginner-friendly drone is finally ready to take to the skies, after we first saw a prototype at CES this year. The Disco eschews the more common quadcopter format for a fixed-wing system that makes taking off as easy as throwing the device…

Looks like Prince Harry’s ready to give an Olympic champ a run for his money. 

The royal recently tweeted at Jamaican runner Usain Bolt, wishing him a happy 30th birthday along with a playful little challenge in reference to their race in Jamaica, Bolt’s home country, back in 2012. 

The runner, who has three gold medals under his belt from Rio, was obviously game. 

Though 30-year-old Bolt may be considered the GOAT, he is probably looking to redeem himself since his last match-up with the Prince, who had visited Jamaica on a tour to celebrate the Queen’s then-60 years on the throne.

Harry actually “won” that race against the runner at the University of the West Indies stadium when he sprinted following a false start, BBC News reported. 

We suspect the Prince won’t get so lucky next time.  

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Tesla is one of the biggest manufacturers of all-electric cars right now but there are many companies that are actively working to compete with it. Faraday Future is a relatively new company based in California that’s backed by Chinese electronics giant LeEco, the company has already shown off an electric car concept and now it appears that its upcoming production electric vehicle has been spotted out and about in Los Angeles.

A candid shot of what might be Faraday Future’s electric car has been posted online. The car is all covered up because the company hasn’t shown off the design yet and it’s quite likely that the design might not be considered final at this point in time.

From the looks of it, the car appears to be in the same crossover category as the Tesla Model X. It aligns nicely with previous reports that Faraday Future’s first commercial product is going to be an SUV crossover that will cost over $100,000. It’s going to be a proper Model X competitor if this turns out to be true.

There are no technical specifications available right now so it can’t be said for sure what Faraday Future’s first car is capable of and how it stacks up against the Model X. Whether or not it has semi-autonomous driving features like the Model X is also not known.

Faraday Future hasn’t confirmed as yet when it’s going to announce its first production electric vehicle and when it will finally hit the road.

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