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Research, partnerships, community stories, and updates from Days for Girls teams around the world.
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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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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…