Women To Be

05/21/2023

Peter and Christine leaving Denver this morning with the socks. We owe Sue Lee of Sock-It-To-Em for organizing this donation. There are thousands of people out there whose days were a little brighter with clean, comfortable socks. In the end, it’s all about them.

05/21/2023

Sock Magic 🧦✨

05/21/2023

Christine Glidden of Women To Be was in Denver to pick up 11,000 pairs of Bomba socks to deliver to Albuquerque Homeless, Veterans, and Navajo Nation on Friday. She is shown here with Cassandra and Julian from U-Haul who gave her a big discount on the truck. Thank you!

06/16/2022

Hello dear followers! Through some technical difficulties we are forced to ask you to PRETTY PLEASE follow our new Women 2 Be page. This one will be almost obsolete for now.

Social media is such an important tool and we would greatly benefit from your continued following!

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Women To Be delivers reusable menstrual hygiene kits and reproductive health education to elevate the quality of life for girls and young women around the world.

03/16/2022

Hello Friends!

Move over to our new page to be included in our exciting trip to Nepal. We’ll be distributing underwear and reusable sanitary pads to girls there who don’t have what they need every month to stay in school. We’ll be meeting girls, visiting our new sewing center, and hiking the Himalaya.

To celebrate International Women’s Day last week, see the video from the Nepal Leadership Academy which includes our Founder, Christine Glidden.

Link to our new page: https://www.facebook.com/Women2Be505/

11/18/2021

This Is Our Sewing Center near Kathmandu, Nepal. Where these ladies work on creating many different things. Helping those in there area and get there life back on track.🧵🪡

10/15/2021

Above is an article from the New York Times that harshly points out the hypocrisy of the NFL. These Gruden emails are written behind the players’ backs while in public, Gruden says he supports Blacks, women, and g**s. Ha! What a scammer! This is the same misogyny that exists around the world and creates the cultures that keeps girls under control by not supplying effective menstrual supplies to them. What if boys needed menstrual supplies? Think things might be a little different? Link to the full story will be posted on our bio. Thank you for tuning in📫

10/15/2021

Below is a link to an article from the New York Times that harshly points out the hypocrisy of the NFL. These Gruden emails are written behind the players’ backs while in public, Gruden says he supports Blacks, women, and g**s. Ha! What a scammer!
This is the same misogyny that exists around the world and creates the cultures that keeps girls under control by not supplying effective menstrual supplies to them. What if boys needed menstrual supplies? Think things might be a little different?. Link of the full story on New York Times will be posted in our instagram page.

10/13/2021

Here is an excellent article describing the human rights issue associated with lack of menstrual health in Africa. It discusses how ineffective menstrual health management and lack of reproductive health awareness leave a girl at the whim of culture and environment. Lacking these two things, she often lives a life of dependence, poverty, ill-health, and lack of dignity. Talk about this today with friends and colleagues, Make sure everyone you know realizes the worldwide system of neglect it (we) imposes on girls. Then, do something about it. Link will be in the bio for more!💚✨

10/07/2021

During one of our larger kit distributions, we met this little boy who discovered a new use for kits. He hung the ribbon drawstring of the bag around his head and had some fun giving us the peace sign.  Just like all kids in all countries, on all continents, he just wants to play and have fun. And to experience relationship.

I was thinking about this. Kids around the world are so much the same and they grow up to be the same.  We all want the same things- health, family, relationship, peace, and the things that sustain us like food and heat. Right?  

When I travel to distribute kits, I look into the eyes of women I have never met and don’t speak a shared language.  But I find that these women and I share life experience.  We understand each other.  We know the feeling of periods, of child birth, of bringing love into the home.  They say that women meeting for the first time, understand each other better than their husbands do.  I think that’s true.  

Often, I am asked why I focus Women To Be on other countries 8000 miles away when there is so much need in New Mexico.  It’s because I believe that when we elevate the wellbeing of a girl in Nepal, we elevate the lives of everyone on the planet.  Dignity is shared. Dignity has not bounds or borders.  

Should we only help people in our neighborhood? Our city? Our state? Our country? Our hemisphere? Why do we draw these arbitrary boundaries? Women To Be goes where it is needed. See how we do it and check us out on our website located on our Instagram and Facebook. Thank you for tuning in.

10/05/2021

Councilman Mark Freeland of the Navajo Eastern Agency and Vera Morgan of Pinedale welcomed us over the weekend as the Rotary Club of Albuquerque funded 8 trips of food and cleaning supplies delivery to be conducted over the next 3 months. Here we are on the back of the truck. This trip was especially important because recent rain meant that many people, mostly elders, were stuck in their homes. You can see what mud does! This car broke down in the mud and needed to be rescued. I know it has been awhile since we have posted. Thank you all for joining in and staying connected with us.

10/05/2021

Councilman Mark Freeland of the Navajo Eastern Agency and Vera Morgan of Pinedale welcomed us over the weekend as the Rotary Club of Albuquerque funded 8 trips of food and cleaning supplies delivery to be conducted over the next 3 months. Here we are on the back of the truck. This trip was especially important because recent rain meant that many people, mostly elders, were stuck in their homes. You can see what mud does! This car broke down in the mud and needed to be rescued. I know it has been quite some time since we posted so thank you all for joining in and continue to follow us on this journey!