{"id":385449,"date":"2026-08-30T18:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T18:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/385449\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T18:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T18:12:08","slug":"one-year-later-boey-cho-is-still-going-with-the-flow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/385449\/","title":{"rendered":"One year later, Boey Cho is still going with the flow"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the summer of 2025, then-high school junior Boey Cho launched her passion project, Go With The Flo Orlando<\/a>, a nonprofit aiming to address disparities in women\u2019s health care and access to menstrual products. She set up a series of \u201cperiod pantries<\/a>\u201d \u2014 revitalized newspaper boxes and mini lockers full of free pads, tampons and menstrual cups \u2014 across Orlando.\n<\/p>\n

Back then, she\u2019d opened three pantries. Now, as Cho enters her senior year, she\u2019s established 10. They inhabit various everyday places: a thrift store, a coffee shop, a laundromat, a yoga studio.\n<\/p>\n

One sits in The Eagles\u2019 Market<\/a>, a food pantry started by students in 2017 at Edgewater High School, where Cho attends. With the help of the school\u2019s Interact Club<\/a>, a leadership and community service group, she packaged supplies for her pantries in light pink paper bags.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m so grateful that it\u2019s been so successful, and I\u2019ve been able to reach this many people and places,\u201d Cho said. \u201cIt\u2019s a privilege every day that I get to help people, and advocate for an issue that I care about.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

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At a recent Girls Run Orlando event in August, Boey Cho collected menstrual product donations for her nonprofit cause, Go With The Flo Orlando. (COURTESY OF BOEY CHO)<\/p>\n

As a part of this advocacy, she collaborated with the yoga studio Peaceful Peacock Orlando, which is home to one of her pantries. The event, \u201cFriend-struation,\u201d was part yoga class, part supply drive. As donations flowed in, yoga instructors taught stretches to relieve menstrual cramping.\n<\/p>\n

Then, in April, Cho spoke at REDTalk, a speaker conference highlighting all things menstrual health, hosted by Rollins College\u2019s Menstrual Equity Initiative<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

Even with school in full swing and stacking senior-year responsibilities, Cho held another supply drive in mid-August with Girls Run Orlando<\/a>, a local women\u2019s running club. And she\u2019s far from done: Next on her list is forming a youth advisory board, which is currently accepting applications<\/a> from high school\u2013aged kids.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone\u2019s so supportive, truly. My friends, my teachers, they just want to support me and help me in any way,\u201d Cho said, \u201cwhich is part of why I\u2019m so excited to have a youth advisory board \u2014 to give kids that are interested in addressing taboo subjects an opportunity to do that, and to feel like they\u2019re making a change in something that\u2019s important.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

To stay updated on Cho\u2019s advocacy, you can follow her page at Instagram.com\/gowiththeflo.orl<\/a>.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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