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Research, partnerships, community stories, and updates from Days for Girls teams around the world.
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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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ANNOUNCING: Days for Girls’ Masks4Millions Campaign
Our emails and phone lines have been flooded with requests for face masks to distribute to medical personnel and patients around the world. Those who know Days for Girls know that we have 70,000 volunteers, and a majority of them are sewers, so these calls are not a surprise. We are ready to pivot to…
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Photo Essay: Manyatta, Kenya Distribution
Photographer Laurie Nowling recently distributed DfG Kits in Kenya. This is her incredible story. In February of 2019, I was introduced to Davis and Sharon, a Kenyan couple working to fight poverty and educate children in the Manyatta slums. Sharon shared that the girls were going to great lengths to purchase period products. Many of…
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World Vision Refugee Project
November 12, 2019 Our Refugee Project is in full swing! In partnership with World Vision, we will be reaching refugee and internally displaced women and girls in Lebanon, Afghanistan, South Sudan, and Somalia with DfG Kits and vital menstrual health education! Our International Chapters and Teams throughout the world have been hard at work making…
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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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Important Updates to Menstrual Charting Calendar
It was the Peruvian women of the Cloud Forest who showed us clearly: the menstrual charting calendar needs to be revised. The Quechuan nurses aced the Ambassador of Women’s Health Training in just one day and said afterward, “The part that we didn’t know is that we can have fun teaching this.” The next day…
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Tackling Zambian taboos in prisons & schools
The topic of menstruation is a taboo subject where I live. For the past seven years, my family has been living as Baptist missionaries in Zambia, Africa. While we mainly focus on the Deaf community, recently I have felt a tug toward the women in our local prisons. This past January I was approved to…
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Partnering with Chief Theresa Kachindamoto: Ending child marriage and keeping girls in school
“If [girls] are educated, they can be and have whatever they want” – Chief Theresa Kachindamoto, a fearsome advocate for girls education and active terminator of child marriages in Malawi. This past November, as a direct result of the success and outreach from Days for Girls’ 10th birthday celebration (the 2018 Global Girls Festival) Days…
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Thankfully yours: What 10 years has taught me
I am a gratitude girl. The license plate on my car reads GRATA2D. To me, recognizing the many miracles that occur on any given day is key to both happiness and success. I completely delight in seeing the wonders of life around me. It’s a preoccupation of mine. Which is really easy when you are…
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Days for Girls = Dignity for Girls
It’s the moment that South Sudanese school girls dread: coming on their period while at school. A schoolgirl from Wau told us, “I feel uncomfortable because my blood will be coming out and I will want to get out of class… it will distract my lesson so it’s better to stay at home.” Due to…
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#ClassyGives: Classy, DfG team distribute kits to schoolgirls in Uganda
When I was selected as one of nine participants from my company’s (Classy) fundraising challenge, I could barely contain my excitement to meet the Days for Girl team in Uganda and see them in action. Although I knew menstrual health and access to sanitary pads was an issue for women and girls, I did not…
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Turning Periods Into Pathways
All over the world, women and girls share a common bond: our monthly periods. This natural process creates different challenges for each of us, depending on our individual bodies, income, geography, education level, and culture. At our recent Menstrual Hygiene Day presentation in Seattle, we confirmed that when it comes to addressing global health and…
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Turning a Moment Into a Movement
Thomas Edison embraced the disappointments and stumbles that led to his invention of the light bulb, reportedly saying, “I have not failed, I’ve just found 700 ways that won’t work.” When it comes to menstrual care, our world has also found hundreds of ways to fail. Too many products have failed to consider cultural, environmental,…
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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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Pathways to New Traditions
The road to Kalikot, Nepal is one of the most beautiful in the world …and one of the most dangerous. Days for Girls climbs these stunning mountain paths for an important reason: shattering the shame of menstruation. In recent months, the outside world has been learning about western Nepal because of chhaupadi, the practice of…
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Helping a Girl, Finding a Community
I stumbled upon Days for Girls in December through a flyer in one of the buildings at Tulane University, where I am pursuing my master’s degree in public health. I was delighted to see this notice for a volunteering event, because I had been looking to get involved with a nonprofit organization that works on…
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One Million… And Counting!
YOU DID IT! One million women and girls! Days for Girls Chapters, Teams, Enterprises, Clubs, and volunteers reported their distributions from around the globe, while our partners, supporters, and sponsors created a tidal wave of end-of-year donations. All together, you’ve just made it possible for us to reach our millionth girl — in less than…
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Reaching for the Next Level
DfG Pod – “starter” pack sold by Micro-Enterprises Living in a conflict, or post-conflict situation, means life can change in the blink of an eye, and “solutions” can feel fleeting, insecure, or like bandaids to the real problems going on. At Days for Girls, we can’t solve every challenge faced by Syrian refugees today (we…