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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…