Hill Country Stake
Young Women and Relief Society
Service Project
The Young Women from our Stake planned a service project for Girls Camp. The project was to make 200 kits for the Day for Girls organization. They decided to ask the Relief Society for assistance with the prep work and the more complicated sewing portions of the project.
What is Days for Girls?
Every girl in the world deserves education, safety, and dignity. We help girls gain access to quality sustainable feminine hygiene and awareness, by direct distribution of sustainable feminine hygiene kits, by partnering with nonprofits, groups and organizations, by raising awareness, and by helping communities around the world start their own programs. Thanks to a global grassroot network of thousands of volunteers and supporters on 6 continents, we have reached women and girls in 75+ countries on 6 continents. It's working. You can help us reach the rest.
Imagine…
What if not having sanitary supplies meant DAYS without school, DAYS without income, DAYS without leaving the house? Girls use leaves, mattress stuffing, newspaper, corn husks, rocks, anything they can find...but still miss up to 2 months of school every year. It turns out this issue is a surprising but instrumental key to social change for women all over the world. The poverty cycle can be broken when girls stay in school.
Mission:
Creating a more dignified, free and educated world through access to lasting feminine hygiene solutions.
Days for Girls International is a grassroots 501(c)3 non-profit. Women, and girls discover their potential and self-value, are equal participants and agents of social change and are given opportunities to thrive, grow and contribute to their community's betterment while ensuring quality sustainable feminine hygiene.
Vision:
Every girl and woman in the world with ready feasible access to quality sustainable hygiene & health education by 2022.
Project:
Our Stake Young Women's camp director made the goal of making 200 kits in 3 months. This was quite the endeavor. Our ward was asked to make 20 kits.Each kit contains 2 shields and 8 liners. Each shield takes about 30 minutes for an experienced seamstress to make.
We had the Young Women help with cutting out all the pieces.
Then the sewing began. The liners all had to be serged, sewed, and then serged again.
The shields were pieces of fabric sewn together with a plastic liner in between. The shields also had pockets on both ends for the fabric liners to fit into.
We also had work days at the church with the 4 units that share our building. This was frustrating to me. Incorrect instructions were given out and the ladies followed them. We had to do a lot of "repair" work on this project so that when the kits go to quality control at the national organization, all the work and resources were not wasted.
A sister from my ward and I made all of the shields for our ward's part.
The young women in our Stake had girls camp and assembled all the kits.
Each kit contains 2 shield, 8 liners, 2 safety pins, 2 ziplock bags (one to hold the clean supplies in and one to hold the soiled supplies in) , a bar of soap, and a fabric bag to carry all of the supplies in.
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| Boxed up and ready to take to the national organization |
