Days for Girls Sun Prairie WI Chapter

12/08/2022

If you’re looking to donate any funds in your year-end gifts, I’ll put this here for your consideration. This is for the Sun Prairie (Wisconsin) Days for Girls Team. 100% goes to materials used to make the menstrual kits or postage to mail them to the shipping point.

Help us raise funds for our DfG Team!

07/19/2022

UPDATE: These kits are being shipped this week to Tanzania & Haiti!!!

This week our team put together another 311 menstrual kits - that is over 3700 sewn parts put together by about 45 volunteers in our Sun Prairie team working on their own in their own homes. Our team leader, Linda Frautschy, organizes the different parts getting to the right person on the steps to make the final parts. Then every few months, a group of 20-25 people meet to put the parts together into finished kits to be shipped to where needed. Since our group began in May of 2019, we’ve made over 1000 kits, most of them during the pandemic. The last picture is with 270 lbs of kits loaded up for another volunteer to drive them to the shipping point, (costing $200 but saving us $77 in shipping costs with his personal UPS discount).

Places our kits have been sent:
Côte d’Ivoire
Tanzania
Chad
Jordan
Lebanon

& money donated to the Ukrainian Humanitarian project.

03/15/2022

This is the emergency response project our Sun Prairie team is working on right now. Money raised right now will all go to this. Our group is ordering disposable pads to be sent directly to the collection point, & we are shipping our supply of soap & underwear that we have on hand now to the same collection point. Thanks for any help.

05/07/2021

https://www.facebook.com/DaysforGirls/posts/4720593131300394

Check out this story of Days for Girls International in Nepal. This is so exciting. We recently sent 300 kits to Chad so it's always great to see what's going on around the globe. (Scroll down to our January 28 post for a link to our donation page if you'd like to help with this great worldwide project.)

03/24/2021

Our Sun Prairie team has been working on our Days for Girls menstrual kits all throughout the pandemic, each of us doing our part of the project in our own homes. This week we delivered 300 completed kits to Liberty, Missouri, for its first leg of the journey to the country of Chad to help with the Chad Humanitarian Project. Chad is in the middle of simultaneous and overlapping conflicts and insecurity, resulting in large numbers of refugees, internally displaced persons, and Chad returnees. At present, Chad hosts over 470,000 refugees from Sudan, the Central African Republic and Nigeria, as well as 330,000 internally displaced persons, mostly around the Lake Chad region whose experiences have been compounded by COVID-19.

In partnership with Watoto Read and the Jesuit Refugee Service, Days for Girls Chapters and Teams are stepping up to meet the urgent need of 21,000 refugees.

Here are pictures of Linda Frautschy (leader of our Sun Prairie group, on the left) & Jan Wurster readying the 12 boxes containing the 300 kits for delivery. A local Sun Prairie pastor, Pastor Tim Hansen of Our Savior's Lutheran Church, drove the 7 hours to deliver them to Liberty, Missouri, to save us postage. The second photo shows the 12 boxes delivered.

01/29/2021

An update to our Sun Prairie team's progress:

We have been continuing to work during covid, each in our own homes doing one part of the project before forwarding it onto another, thanks to the organizational skills of Linda Frautschy. We are sitting on about 250 completed kits, about 50 of them heavy flow kits. By this summer we will probably have another 200 regular kits ready to pack.

Our team's kits have been put on the International Days for Girls Kits Available list. We look forward to sending them off to a much-needed location soon.

01/28/2021

Days for Girls International prepares & distributes sustainable menstrual kits so girls around the world don’t miss school during their menstrual periods.

This is our Sun Prairie, Wi, donation page to raise money for our local group to buy fabric & supplies to make our menstrual kits. Want to help? Every $10 donation will allow us to create a kit that will change the life of a girl who has no access to hygiene products. Here is a link to our fundraising page:

Help us raise funds for our DfG Team!

10/28/2020

Days for Girls is a global movement that prepares and distributes sustainable menstrual health solutions to girls who would otherwise miss school during their monthly periods. The nonprofit organization was founded in 2008 by American woman Celeste Mergens. After visiting an orphanage in Nairobi, Kenya, she discovered that menstruating girls stayed in their dormitories for days, sitting on cardboard to absorb their flow, because they could not afford feminine hygiene products. Her first response was to organize donations of disposable sanitary pads, but she realized that this was not a sustainable solution — and the girls had no way to dispose of used pads. She then developed the idea of creating washable, reusable pads and providing the girls with a personal kit of all they would need to continue their schooling with hygiene and dignity. By 2018, the DfG Kits and health education programs had reached more than one million girls and women in over 100 countries.