Goods 4 Girls
Crunchy Chicken is at it again. This time she started a new website called “Goods 4 Girls.” The goal is to collect donations of reusable sanitary napkins to send to Africa. Other organizations are doing similar collections and sending disposable sanitary napkins to these regions in South Africa, but Crunchy Chicken points out the concern that the main means of trash disposal there is incineration.
In many areas of the world, access to adequate menstrual supplies is difficult to come by. Many women and girls rely on rags, newspaper, camel skin or nothing at all for their menstrual needs. A lack of sanitary pads can be a big barrier to a girl’s education. [Goods 4 Girls website]
Please donate a pad or two (or three or four). If you don’t want to purchase a pad and have it sent to Goods 4 Girls, you can sew your own. There are patterns available on the website for you to follow. It’s not often that you can donate to a good cause and you know exactly where it’s going.
P.S. I bought mine from MamaCloth over on Etsy. For every four pads purchased and send to G4G, she throws in an extra…plus I like to support Etsy.
First you’re making butter and now you’re buying pads. Jason, you never cease to amaze me!
Thanks Jason. This is such a worthwhile cause. As every woman can tell you, this is the kind of stuff that can ruin one’s life (five days out of thirty) if not attended to.
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What a practical idea that saves face and saves the planet’s resources at the same time.
public exposure for a very private problem, it takes a generous spirit to galvanize such a simple idea into easy action, i wish success to all the girls.