Our Impact
COVID-19
Research, partnerships, community stories, and updates from Days for Girls teams around the world.
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Evaluating the Effects of COVID-19 on Period Poverty
In 2020, while everyone was dealing with the isolation, uncertainty and economic blows of COVID-19, a recent study showed that menstruators were hit especially hard with period poverty. The study, entitled “Menstrual Product Insecurity Resulting From COVID-19‒Related Income Loss, United States, 2020” in the American Journal of Public Health, concluded that, “Pandemic-related income loss was…
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Periods In and After the Pandemic: Refugee Spotlight — Webinar Recap
In celebration of MH Day 2021 and this year’s theme #ItsTimeForAction, Days for Girls gathered partners for a special webinar event, “Periods in and after the pandemic: Refugee Spotlight” (scroll down to watch the full replay). Menstrual health in a time of emergency has been a key focus of the past year’s MH field-building efforts.…
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International Women’s Day 2021
Are you ready? March 8th is International Day of the Woman (IWD): one day to celebrate the achievements of women around the world and recommit to the gender equality movement. This year, under the theme “Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world, UN Women invites us to the honor the incredible resilience of…
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The Shadow Pandemic
Guest Post By: Elizabeth Titus There is a “shadow pandemic” in the wake of COVID-19 that poses a major risk for women and girls and threatens their hard-won progress toward gender equality. As the United Nations Population Fund pointed out in a March 2020 brief, “The pandemic will compound existing gender inequalities, and increase risks…
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Integrating Menstrual Health into Humanitarian and Emergency Responses in Lebanon
Each year, conflicts, disasters and public health emergencies leave millions of women and girls without access to clean and safe products to manage their menstruation. When local and foreign governments, and organizations shift their allocation of resources towards meeting “basic human needs,” menstrual health solutions are often under-funded, or excluded altogether. Days for Girls is…
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Stronger Together: Chapters & Teams Stepping Up
At Days For Girls, our impact is rooted in the collaboration of an incredible global network. Around the world, our Chapters, Teams and Enterprises are working in tandem to build a better, more equitable future for women and girls – and solidarity is key to their success! By putting their hearts and minds together, DfG…
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Part 2: Five Women on the Front Lines of the Pandemic
This post is the second part in a series of five articles on how women are responding to the pandemic around the world. Read “Part 1: Going House-to-House in Kenya.” Seeing the Downside of Depending on Imports in Zimbabwe Chipo Chikomo, Days for Girls Country Director in Zimbabwe, faced a challenging situation in a landlocked…
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MHH & The Sanitation Economy In A Post-COVID World
COVID-19 has ushered in a new set of challenges for leaders across development sectors. How can we put our heads together to advance our shared goals in this new reality? In this video interview, Days For Girls Advocacy Director Diana Nelson sits down with The Toilet Board Coalition CEO Cheryl Hicks to discuss exactly that.…
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Our Global Enterprises: Voices from the Field
Around the world, people are responding to life in quarantine. We asked leaders in our country offices how COVID-19 is impacting their work with Days for Girls and their daily lives. Ghana In our country office in Ghana, staff and enterprise leaders have been under lockdown and the government has taken extra precautions and made…
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#Masks4Millions Global Impact
On March 20th, Days for Girls launched our #Masks4Millions campaign to help frontline workers in the fight against COVID-19. We stepped up as soon as the news of mask shortages reached our ears. For us, it wasn’t a question of if we could help but how soon we could start. After all, who better to…