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Research, partnerships, community stories, and updates from Days for Girls teams around the world.
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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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Five Women on the Front Lines of the Pandemic
As the world reels from COVID-19, global NGO Days for Girls International women have found ways to continue their work with menstrual health as well as introduce new programs to educate and protect the communities they serve. According to Celeste Mergens, founder and CEO, “We rallied our 70,000+ grassroots volunteers and 150 global enterprise teams…
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Elevating Local Leadership In Cambodia
Project G: Youth For Menstrual Equity Heng Ry sits comfortably at the head of the classroom at Streth Secondary School in Siem Reap, Cambodia. She’s holding a Days For Girls Kit in her hands; a flipchart diagram of a uterus rests beside her. The 21-year-old university student is here to teach teenagers all about menstrual…
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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…
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Enterprise Spotlight: Chipo Chikomo
Imagine being invited to a meeting by the First Lady of Zimbabwe, the Honorable Auxillia Mnangagwa, at her residence. This is what recently happened to me as I found myself sitting down with Diana Nelson, DfGI Advocacy Director, waiting for the First Lady to enter the boardroom. As the Country Representative for Zimbabwe, I had…
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Keeping a Promise
Alice Wambui is the 8th of 14 children. She excelled in school for years, working hard to achieve good grades. Then while sitting for the national exams during her final term of Primary School, her first period arrived, heralding in a new era of struggle. She now faced the challenge of managing menstruation without money…
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Creating Pathways Through Film
Award winning video journalist and filmmaker Tania Safi and video assist Rachelle Hair recently spent two days with DfG Lebanon learning about DfG’s response to the refugee crisis in Lebanon and participating in several DfG Kit distributions, all while filming the experience in order to create the incredible video, “Turning Periods into Pathways,” as part…
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Inspiring the Human Spirit
The Starbucks motto is “to inspire and nurture the human spirit.” So when Days for Girls learned that the Starbucks Foundation wanted to find ways to support local women coffee farmers, we were thrilled! With a generous grant provided to DfG East Africa, our team launched 3 new Enterprises in Rwanda to serve their local…
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VIDEO: East African Enterprise Leaders gather to learn and share
“Think Equal, Build Smart, Innovate for Change,” this theme, for International Women’s Day 2019, perfectly describes the 158 participants from 79 DfG Enterprises who attended the Days for Girls East Africa Enterprise Conference held in Kampala, Uganda on March 4-6, 2019. Women and men came from Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia and the DRC for the…
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An Enterprising Enterprise
Nelson Mandela once said, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” At the Days for Girls Ghana Office, this mantra helps us grow and sustain our programming and impact across West Africa, through our team members and Enterprises. The Days for Girls Tamale Enterprise, working in Ghana’s Northern…
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Dancing for Days: Refugees Thrilled by DfG Kits
Experts tell us it’s important to get out up out of our office chairs once and move — a stretch, a shake, get the blood flowing! At Days for Girls, we take this advice a step farther. Recently our team got up from our spreadsheets and reports and went all the way to Kyaka Refugee…
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Change Is In Her Hands
“I always hear about issues that women face due to lack of personal hygiene, but because of customs and traditions, i cannot always ask about this subject. Now I am very happy because I will be able to understand this information scientifically and in a correct way.” Fadiyeh speaks with purpose when she imagines the…
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The Power of Positive Partnerships in Sierra Leone
Having access to menstrual health supplies — something that many women take for granted — is truly a life-changing privilege. In Sierra Leone, the impact of DfG Kits has been incredible! Uman Talk (translation: Woman Talk) is a project to produce DfG Kits in Sierra Leone, managed by Schools for Salone (SfS), a Seattle-based nonprofit,…
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Introducing the Enterprise Evaluation Report
Every Girl. Everywhere. Period. When Days for Girls set a goal this high, we knew it would require a combination of volunteers, social enterprises, and partners all over the world. In fact, in the same year that we launched our first Days for Girls Chapter, in the United States, we also offered our first Make…
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Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
Days for Girls trainers have been known to really go the distance when it comes to reaching girls and training women. The team in Nepal recently walked over five hours, carrying all their training materials and overnight luggage in order to reach a training in the Kalikot region. In Guyana, Days for Girls superwomen trekked…
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Gearing Up for Good
“All my bags are packed, I’m ready to go…” That’s the song that’s going through our heads at the end of this year as we prepare for the program launch in February! Three team members from Days for Girls International are headed to Tripoli and Saida, Lebanon in February to conduct the training of trainers…
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Little Piece of Freedom in Lebanon
It is farming season in Lebanon. Every day, Syrian refugee girls are sent to the fields in Bekaa Valley to work for less than $3 per day. When she is paid, she gives 50% of her money to the Informal Settlement camp manager and the other 50% to the head of her household. If she…
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Days for Girls Uganda Helps Women & Girls Take Control of Menstruation
Days for Girls Uganda has successfully trained over 1,500 girls on menstrual hygiene management. There has been training in Nakapiripiriti as well, (twice), and we have trained over 600 girls and women as a result. Lastly, in a refugee camp, we have trained 30 women. We train them to know about their general hygiene and…
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Days For Girls Uganda Update, Part 2: October
Hello! Last week we started a series on Uganda. Today we bring you Part 2, the October Update. Libby, our Days for Girls Uganda Country Director sent us a recap of the past several months, and we are sharing them piece by piece here on the blog. Take a look at all that happened in…