
Days for Girls (DfG)
Menstrual health and hygiene are critical factors in improving education opportunities and livelihood outcomes for women, girls and people with periods worldwide. Days for Girls (DfG) works to provide reusable sustainable menstrual hygiene kits to girls and women in need wherever they are in the world. The DfG Nepean Team is organized by women from our community and has, since it’s inception in 2016, provided over 6000 kits to girls and women worldwide. Many of those kits are made, at least in part, by Girl Guides. The Nepean Team was started as a way of helping Pathfinders (aged 12 to 15) and Rangers (aged 15 to 18) in Crystal Beach, who met at Maki House, earn the Global Service component of their program. At the present, we don’t have Pathfinder or Rangers meeting at Maki, but DfG Nepean continues to run workshops with Guide and Scout groups all over the city. In 2024 we ran 10 such workshops, during which youth members learned to use sewing machines and sergers. They cut fabric, string bags, fold underwear and pack kits for distribution all the while discussing menstrual health and helping to destigmatize periods.
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