woven_wings
07-06-2007, 11:07 AM
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I havent done one of these in a long time! Ive just been doing stuff on my own.
I just found this site: www.donatepads.org (http://www.donatepads.org)
In many parts of the world women are literally too poor to buy menstrual products (if they even have access to them). They include young women in orphanages (often orphaned as a result of war, or diseases such as AIDS), remote village women, women in areas of natural disasters and even women's shelters. There are thousands of women in need of these basic items we consider a necessity.
How does that effect their lives?
In some cases girls stay home from school when menstruating or stay home on heavy days, as they cannot afford disposable products or the cloth rags they use are not absorbent enough to cope with the blood flow. These girls are missing out on the benefits of school because they don't have pads. For young women to be missing out on education because of a lack of menstrual products should not ever happen! Some women are forced to use newspaper or toilet paper in place of pads or tampons, because they have no other options.
In some countries washing a reusable product is not possible as water is in short supply, so even strips of cloth that may be easy to come by, are not able to be properly used. Disposable products are often too expensive to afford or simply not available. In times of disaster (tsunami's cyclones etc.) women who might have otherwise been able to obtain these products themselves, may be left with nothing, and stores supplying disposables can be destroyed along with everything else.
But it doesn't have to be that way. Aid agencies are already providing menstrual products to women in need, usually disposable ones, but you can help too. Whether that be to donate unused disposable products, make and donate cloth pads, or even donate money to aid agencies (some specifically deal with this issue) - there are things you can do to help. If you've ever made an emergency trip down to the shops to buy a pack of pads or tampons.... think about what it would be like if there were no shops to buy them from, or no money to afford them.
Would anyone be interested in collecting fabric/making pads with me to help out these women in struggling countries?
OR
Collecting and donating disposable products?
We could choose an organisation together and donate as a bubhub group? :thumbsup:
I havent done one of these in a long time! Ive just been doing stuff on my own.
I just found this site: www.donatepads.org (http://www.donatepads.org)
In many parts of the world women are literally too poor to buy menstrual products (if they even have access to them). They include young women in orphanages (often orphaned as a result of war, or diseases such as AIDS), remote village women, women in areas of natural disasters and even women's shelters. There are thousands of women in need of these basic items we consider a necessity.
How does that effect their lives?
In some cases girls stay home from school when menstruating or stay home on heavy days, as they cannot afford disposable products or the cloth rags they use are not absorbent enough to cope with the blood flow. These girls are missing out on the benefits of school because they don't have pads. For young women to be missing out on education because of a lack of menstrual products should not ever happen! Some women are forced to use newspaper or toilet paper in place of pads or tampons, because they have no other options.
In some countries washing a reusable product is not possible as water is in short supply, so even strips of cloth that may be easy to come by, are not able to be properly used. Disposable products are often too expensive to afford or simply not available. In times of disaster (tsunami's cyclones etc.) women who might have otherwise been able to obtain these products themselves, may be left with nothing, and stores supplying disposables can be destroyed along with everything else.
But it doesn't have to be that way. Aid agencies are already providing menstrual products to women in need, usually disposable ones, but you can help too. Whether that be to donate unused disposable products, make and donate cloth pads, or even donate money to aid agencies (some specifically deal with this issue) - there are things you can do to help. If you've ever made an emergency trip down to the shops to buy a pack of pads or tampons.... think about what it would be like if there were no shops to buy them from, or no money to afford them.
Would anyone be interested in collecting fabric/making pads with me to help out these women in struggling countries?
OR
Collecting and donating disposable products?
We could choose an organisation together and donate as a bubhub group? :thumbsup: