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Research, partnerships, community stories, and updates from Days for Girls teams around the world.
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She’s Counting on You. Are You In?
I am a big believer in dreams. But I must admit, I never imagined I would be traveling around the world talking about menstruation at the age of 55. I dreamed instead of playing with my grandchildren, or maybe writing a book, or even having time to read a book! But that was before I…
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Meeting Needs With Solutions
Navigating life as a refugee is uncertain at best, and there is not always an easy answer to the big questions. But when it comes to hygiene, and ensuring dignity for women – there is a simple solution. The Days for Girls Kit allows girls and women to manage their menstruation easily, month after month,…
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Ghana Expedition
One opportunity to see the impact of DfG Kits firsthand can be found through DfG Expeditions. In the past, DfG has offered Expeditions to Uganda and Nepal. In May, a new group of Days for Girls adventurers set out for Ghana to visit the Center in Accra, work with a Micro-Enterprise in Northern Ghana, and…
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March Story Highlight
Lynne Marlowe founded a DfG Micro-Enterprise in Endulen, Tanzania back in 2015. Read her story here: I fell in love with Africa in 2012 when my brother took me on safari in Tanzania. There I became friends with Lemali, a Maasai man who worked at our camp in the Serengeti, and learned more about his…
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Data Tells Her Story: DfG Launches New M&E Toolkit
Days for Girls volunteers have captured the stories of women and girls and their struggles with menstruation all over the world. We read the stories that our Chapters bring back from Swaziland, Kiribati, and Honduras. We see it in the photos of girls receiving Kits in Malawi, Bangladesh, and Guyana. We experience it in the…
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Days for Girls Goes to Laos
25th July 2016 In June this year, myself and a team of 9 other nursing students, as well as two registered nurses traveled to Laos to set up health clinics in local communities of the Seung Valley as a part of our studies at university. At these clinics we provided health education and promotion, conducted…
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Striving for Every Girl. Everywhere. Period.
With over 600 Chapters and Teams, 167 emerging Micro-Enterprises, 3 Centers, and 100+ countries reached, it’s fair to say that we have a lot of diversity here at Days for Girls. But we are all exactly the same in one respect: our drive to reach Every Girl. Everywhere. Period. We know it might sound like…
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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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International Friendships Inspiring Grassroots Change
Each Days for Girls Kit tells a story. It tells the story of the person who made it, sewing together the bright patterns with love & care so that a girl could continue going to school once she came of age. It tells the story of the woman who receives it, and uses that DfG…
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The Power of Two: You Gave Them Sewing Machines and Knowledge…
The Power of Two: You Gave Them Sewing Machines and Knowledge… Two years ago 5 individuals (Linda, Linda R, Mary, Don and Celeste) took on the challenge of training 52 individuals who gathered in Bullawayo, Zimbabwe to learn how to be Ambassadors of Women’s Health and to make washable feminine hygiene products. It was a…
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Zimbabwe and the Man Who Would Not Take No for an Answer
Hello from Zimbabwe! Do you remember how the DFG team last time trained 48 women and 2 men to be Ambassadors of Women’s Health and to train others to make their own kits? One of the men was with the Ministry of Education, the other was sent by the governor’s Self Help program. Though we…
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Girls are Precious
I wish you could have heard them sing. 50 girls in harmony, “Girls are precious, that’s our motto.” 6 Zimbabwe DFG Ambassadors of Women’s Health from the October training came and sacrificed time and their own funds to get to the training for 50 girls. Unheard of in nations where things are so tight… but…
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The Changes a Kit Can Make
We had a very large goal to obtain and thanks to you, we reached it! Recent distributions in Kenya were phenomenal. We passed out hundreds of kits. One set was during a near monsoon. As usual, when they heard what we were there to distribute the cheers were deafening, far beyond the pelleting rain on…
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Kenyan Orphanage Receives 500 Kits: November 2008 Report
Nov. 2008 Report – First Delivery of Days For Girls Kits We’re back! Days For Girls Was a Transformative Experience. Kenya, Africa It is almost unimaginable, when we learned that girls in Academy of Hidden Talents in the slums of Kenya could be waiting in their room for days during menstruation. But thanks to YOU…