YWLA Student Named ‘GoFundMe Hero’ for Mission to Help Struggling Women

By Alanna Quillen
Published by NBC-DFW on April 19, 2022

A Lancaster teenager is being recognized nationally for her efforts in supporting women in struggling communities.

After years of volunteering to help the homeless and underserved families in DFW, 17-year-old Taylor McCowan said she noticed something: Women and girls often weren’t given or didn’t have any access to feminine hygiene products.

Inspired by this, she founded The Confident Girl, a project aimed at ending period poverty across North Texas and beyond.

“When I originally started the project, I did research behind period poverty. I learned that one in four women face it, especially in schools and in more urban environments,” she said.

McCowan, who is a junior at the Young Women’s Leadership Academy in Grand Prairie, said she originally began her efforts to address period poverty as a community service project for her Girl Scout Silver Award in 2019.