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 [Diversity & Inclusion](/CSR-News/diversity-inclusion)

 # Building Inclusive Communities at Dow

 


 

 Nov 6, 2023 2:05 PM ET

  ![An adult kneeling on the floor with children, coloring on a piece of paper.](/sites/default/files/styles/carousel_2x/public/images/genderequity_dow_082123.png) 

[Originally published in Dow's 2022 Progress Report](https://corporate.dow.com/en-us/science-and-sustainability/reporting.html)

We are building inclusive communities by engaging our ERGs, empowering more inclusive learning environments and collaborating with strategic partners to help address systemic discrimination and inequity to accelerate change. One of the ways we do this is through the ALL *IN* ERG Fund.

**ALL** ***IN*** **ERG FUND**

The ALL *IN* ERG Fund aims to help Dow become the world’s most inclusive materials science company by harnessing the passion and perspective of our 10 ERGs to collaborate with community organizations tackling the greatest inclusion, diversity and equity needs.

Since the fund launched in 2019, we have committed **$1.1 million** to support **53** ALL *IN* ERG projects in **25** countries worldwide, resulting in:

**3,042** people gaining social networks and support 505 people obtaining/ sustaining a job

**481** people achieving safety and inclusion

**1,387** people improving social/emotional well-being

**505** people obtaining/ sustaining a job

**1,563** people succeeding in school

**4,831** hours volunteered by Dow employees

**Promoting Gender Equity and Inclusion in Thailand**

To help promote health, well-being and equal learning opportunities, Dow collaborated with our customer Kao Industrial (Thailand) Co. Ltd. and the World Vision Foundation of Thailand on reproductive health workshops for more than 500 adolescents in Rayong and Chanthaburi provinces. The workshops educated all genders aged 11-16 on reproductive health and adolescent growth and development. Volunteer-led activities helped students understand more about menstrual hygiene and the risks of sexually transmitted diseases. To help students have equal access to quality menstruation products and alleviate period poverty, a portion of project funds also served as seed money to set up sanitary pad banks at two schools in Chanthaburi.

The activity is part of the Freedom Project, initiated by our Women’s Inclusion Network. The workshop aimed to promote more understanding and reshape attitudes about gender differences, with a key focus on ending menstrual period stigma.

“One of the project’s key achievements is that male students got the opportunity to learn about menstruation products for the first time,” said Nuch Benjarpornbanyat of the Freedom Project. “One student even said that he could now understand the challenges that the girls faced every month to wear the sanitary pads.”

[Read more](https://corporate.dow.com/content/dam/corp/documents/about/066-00432-01-2022-progress-report.pdf)



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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