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imagine1day & Lunapads Partner to Help Girls Go to School
imagine1day and Lunapads partner to help girls in Ethiopia go to school!
Check out an excerpt of the post here and click here to read the whole article.
About nine months ago, we were introduced to Sapna Dayal, executive director of imagine1day (check out our blog post and video interview with Sapna here). Through our collective efforts, Sapna was supplied with twelve Pads4Girls kits for her trip to Tigray, Ethiopia in May 2009. Upon her return, Sapna provided us with a very moving report on the effect our Pads4Girls kits had on the school girls and the enlightening discussion she had about menstruation with them. To her surprise, the imagine1day team was invited back to the school the following week to attend to a play written and performed by the school girls, about the importance of school and how cloth pads could help girls stay in school during their menses. Click here to watch the play and read the story behind Sapna’s visit to the Wazza school.
For us, seeing the video and hearing Sapna’s story gave us, and those who have contributed to our Pads4Girls campaign, living proof that providing cloth pads to African girls who live thousands of miles away is in fact having an immediate impact on their lives.
In recent news, imagine1day has announced plans to build 5 latrines in Tigray. As part of this initiative (and inspired by the impact that our cloth pads had on the Wazza school), imagine1day will work closely with the communities’ Women’s Associations and Gender Equity School Clubs to encourage dialogue about menstruation in an effort to curtail drop outs that this stage of life often causes. Each community will be provided with 10 Pads4Girls kits to facilitate this conversation. We’re very excited about this new level of partnership we’ve struck with imagine1day. Stay tuned for news next spring as we continue to deepen our partnership with imagine1day with hopes share our model to inspire other organizations to provide girls in Africa with cloth pads.
