A big THANK YOU goes out to our donors who are supporting the development of the new women’s cooperative in Marangu West. This group of enterprising women is making personal care kits for the girls and women in their own communities. Some of you donated funds for the purchase and repair of sewing machines and […]
Days for Girls
Days for Girls Project is Thriving
Volunteer Christine and her sister Edwina visited Nurse Eva Ngowi just yesterday with several boxes full of personal hygiene kits for girls. We brought 80 kits with us this year; 40 for girls and 40 for postpartum women. Christine and Edwina worked on sewing and assembling them all year long and each kit takes 5 […]
Support for Girls Update
For the past two years ABCD has been partnering with Days For Girls International, on a project in our Marangu West villages to help adolescent girls and women with safer, healthier and sustainable feminine hygiene management. Our volunteer seamstresses here at home have been sewing together personal care kits which we bring with us on our annual monitoring […]
ABCD Partnering with Days For Girls!
Volunteer Christine recently met with Shawna Strathy, who leads the Ottawa-Gatineau chapter of Days For Girls, to accept an amazing 75 personal care kits destined for the villages in Marangu West, Tanzania. The kits were sewn and assembled by local women around Ottawa and women in a Hutterite community. These kits will allow girls and […]
Meetings, Meetings
A big part of the work of ABCD directors in Tanzania is meeting with various groups, individuals and stakeholders in the community of Marangu West. We recently met with Nurse Eva at the Makomu Dispensary to talk about the Days For Girls project on which Christine has spent so much time at home. She has […]