My Nonprofit Reviews

I heard about this organization and what they do three years ago. I was touched by how such a simple "to us" solution can really make a direct, instantaneous difference to a girl in need. How it changes her life by allowing her to stay in school everyday, become fully educated, and change the course of her life. How it can open her life to change and bettering it for herself, her family and her community. $10 for supplies and an hour for me to spend sewing to make a kit, and I CAN make a difference to someone in the world.

I started a chapter and began involving my other sewing friends and they have told their friends and their mothers and their sisters, and on and on, and now three years later we have spread the word to connections all over the country and into Canada. It is something we as females, who all have experienced the simple biological function of menstration can relate to.

We have all had moments that we find ourselves without when our period begins, but within a few minutes can find a restroom with toilet paper to substitute until we can get to an easy source of pads or tampons to solve our problem. What I have learned since being involved with DFG, most girls and women in the world don't even have that luxury of rolled up toilet paper! Nor a source of pads or tampons in another place or store around the corner. Most don't even have an idea of what to do when this bleeding begins, but just sit, literally sit and wait it out.

I have always loved sewing , and for 28 years sewn various things for humanitarian projects. But once I found this, I have fully committed my time (50-60 hours a week) to making these kits and teaching others to, because I know it makes a difference to each who receives it. I have feedback from every distribution our chapter sends out that it is so welcome , such an ingenious invention to make it simply, washable, sustainable, to resolve an ongoing dilemma to every girl born.
It's an easy project to do, it's great to share with my friends, and we love working on it together, and knowing every step we do, every time we share about the need, every hour we sew, we are doing something that contributes to making life better for one girl. It's very fulfilling and rewarding, knowing it matters to that one girl, and to the next. It's something we just can't stop doing, because there's always just one more girl we want to reach.