It was a real pleasure today to meet with Suresh Gattapur, Councillor for Westlea, to discuss the issues around female ‘period’ poverty. Suresh is involved in an initiative by Mast the Magazine (MTM) to tackle female period poverty and has been asking for donations of sanitary wear products. Here at Dressability, we have been making our own!
Suresh is working to provide sanitary wear to the remote island of Lamu in Kenya, with the support of local charities such as the Huris Foundation Faza. Suresh hopes to create awareness and avenues of support to provide sanitary towels to girls in deprived communities.
Dressability’s own project will run until September 2021 and our homemade sanitary towels will be sent to women in Ghana by our collaborative charity Action Through Enterprise. Many women will receive a bag containing five reusable sanitary towels which will dramatically and hygienically change their lives, giving dignity and a basic need to many women. The material that we have been using has all been kindly donated to us by local people and organisations.
YOU can help!
If you have any new unused cotton or towelling, we would very much appreciate any donation.
Alternatively, you can donate to our local giving page.
A BIG thank you in advance from all at Dressability.
