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 […]
In keeping with our goal of assisting the people of Marangu West to build sustainable futures for themselves, a new and exciting initiative has begun with the supportive encouragement and direction of ABCD Director Lynn. A group of local women, coordinated by local nurse Eva, has come together to meet with ABCD Director Lynn to […]
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 […]
Volunteer Christine Owen, with help from friends and with the support of Days for Girls Charity, is busy sewing more personal care kits for teenage girls in the community we are helping. We received a very nice letter from Nurse Eva Ngowi at the Makomu Dispensary where, during the 2015 volunteer visit, we donated 75 […]
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 […]