Ryan Ba­choo

Lead Ed­i­tor - News­gath­er­ing

ryan.ba­choo@cnc3.co.tt

Leighan­na Den­nis, Miss Princes Town del­e­gate in the Miss World T&T 2025 Pageant and founder of Flow­ers for Women, Inc., host­ed the lo­cal edi­tion of her ad­vo­ca­cy ini­tia­tive, “Pads & Pi­lates,” on Oc­to­ber 11 at the Ste Madeleine Golf Course in San Fer­nan­do.

The event forms part of Den­nis’s on­go­ing mis­sion to pro­mote men­stru­al eq­ui­ty and women’s health through com­mu­ni­ty en­gage­ment. It fol­lowed a suc­cess­ful edi­tion held in Flori­da, which drew more than 30 par­tic­i­pants and col­lect­ed over 1,800 men­stru­al prod­ucts.

In Trinidad, women from across the coun­try par­tic­i­pat­ed in a morn­ing of well­ness and giv­ing, com­bin­ing a Pi­lates ses­sion with a dri­ve to col­lect men­stru­al prod­ucts for girls in need. Do­na­tions from the event will ben­e­fit 24 stu­dents at Princes Town West Sec­ondary School, pro­vid­ing them with sev­er­al months’ worth of es­sen­tial sup­plies.

Den­nis said the ini­tia­tive aims to raise aware­ness about men­stru­al eq­ui­ty while fos­ter­ing a sup­port­ive en­vi­ron­ment for women.

“This ini­tia­tive tran­scends ge­o­graph­i­cal bound­aries,” she said. “Whether in Flori­da or Trinidad, the goal re­mains the same—to en­sure that no girl is held back by her pe­ri­od. When we in­vest in women’s health, we in­vest in the fu­ture of our com­mu­ni­ties.”

Through “Pads & Pi­lates,” Den­nis merges well­ness and phil­an­thropy, en­cour­ag­ing both phys­i­cal health and so­cial re­spon­si­bil­i­ty. The project aligns with the ‘Beau­ty with a Pur­pose’ theme of the Miss World plat­form, which chal­lenges con­tes­tants to use their in­flu­ence to ad­vance char­i­ta­ble and hu­man­i­tar­i­an caus­es.

Den­nis found­ed Flow­ers for Women, Inc. to for­malise and ex­pand her ad­vo­ca­cy work lo­cal­ly and in­ter­na­tion­al­ly. The or­gan­i­sa­tion con­tin­ues to in­vite do­na­tions and part­ner­ships aimed at re­duc­ing pe­ri­od pover­ty and im­prov­ing women’s health ed­u­ca­tion.

The “Pads & Pi­lates” ini­tia­tive is ex­pect­ed to con­tin­ue with fu­ture edi­tions across oth­er parts of T&T.