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 […]
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Letter About Personal Care Kit Project
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 […]
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 […]
Personal Care Kits for Girls
ABCD is very happy to be partnering with the charity Days For Girls in a project aimed at increasing the dignity and health of girls and women by empowering their menstrual health management. All of our ABCD girls and other girls and women in the Kilimanjaro Region are receiving hand-made personal care kits with instructions […]