Project Report
| Feb 5, 2020
The Power of Education
By Sandy Clark | Chief Development & Communications Officer
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Thanks to your donation, we are helping girls who are learning to be proud and not fearful of their periods. Our programs work to shatter stigma and limitations associated with menstruation by giving them the tools and knowledge to end the silence. This allows for increased confidence in managing menstruation, increased body literacy, and decreased shame and embarrassment around puberty. As a result, communities view menstruation as healthy and positive and women and girls have a supportive environment to manage their periods to stay in school and enjoy life
Each health education class opens up life-changing conversations about dignity and self-worth. This is where we celebrate girls and change the narrative from shame to celebration.
Thanks to you, these conversations have reached 1.7 million women and girls around the world!
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Nov 11, 2019
'Tis The Season
By Libby Daghlian | Global Enterprise Program Director
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Mary, Shefar, and Dorcus present DfG Kits
Wherever you are in the world this time of year, it feels that celebrations abound! The DfG team in Nepal recently celebrated Dashain. Our Uganda team rejoiced at Independence Day. The Canadian Chapters gathered for Thanksgiving. And ahead are many more celebrations that will bring together families, communities, and a spirit of togetherness. In the midst of these varied festivities, Days for Girls continues to look for ways to give back days and bring together girls and women from around the world.
The volunteer DfG Chapters are about to begin a distribution of more than 33,000 DfG Kits to refugees in Lebanon. To a similar end, the East Africa team is gearing up for their final distribution of the year for South Sudanese refugees in northern Uganda - and they need your help to make it happen! So far, your support has given thousands of girls and women access to long-lasting, environmentally-friendly menstrual health products. As we forge ahead with self-sustaining ventures like our DfG Enterprises, there are still urgent situations that require immediate donations, such as our refugee communities. Your support now - even just $10 - can translate to immediate impact for a girl or woman in one of Uganda's many refugee settlements. Thank you for being part of the Days for Girls global family!
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Aug 13, 2019
Bringing Long Lasting Change to Kiryandongo
By Sandy Clark | Chief Communications & Development Officer
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Enterprises leading change
In an area in Western Uganda, a refugee settlement named Kiryandongo was reopened in 2014 to respond to the growing influx from the South Sudanese emergency and now hosts almost 60,000 refugees. The majority of refugees are from South Sudan, with a small number from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, and Sudan.
Thanks to your donation, Days for Girls was able to organize health classes and distributions of menstrual DfG Kits to 711 women and girls this past quarter at the settlement. The classes were taught directly at the schools and were enthusiastically received.
An added bonus was that all DfG Kits were made by local women in Uganda. By supporting local women through our Enterprise program you not only bring employment opportunities to the local community, but you empower women to be leaders which enables long lasting change.
Thank for for being a global champion for good.
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