Lunapads Blog

Back from Africa, Carrie-Jane Williams is now home and has updated her blog with some wonderful pictures from her trip to Uganda.  As posted in the Lunapads blog in June 2008, Carrie-Jane was off to Uganda for a volunteer teaching placement and research.  As a side project, she became inspired to do some fundraising to bring Lunapads Goods4Girls Kits  for school girls.  Pictured here is a local nurse talking to the girls about menstruation.

Here is the rest of Carrie-Jane’s report:“Thanks to your donations, about 50 U-Go Girl Kits were taken to girls in Uganda. They were a huge hit with the high school girls! I also brought some to a clinic at a resource centre in a village called Tekera. Because there weren’t enough kits to distribute to everybody (and there’s a huge demand!) I asked the craftswomen and tailors at the resource centre if they could make the pads themselves. We found some old scraps of material and, sure enough, 15 minutes later, a pad was made. The women will start producing pads for local school girls and women and will hopefully make a little money. Overall, the Luna experience was very empowering! U-go Girls!”

Her story in pictures from her blog are a must see.  I particularly enjoyed the pictures of the making of Lunapads (dubbed “Afripads”) by the locals and seeing the old fashioned sewing machines just like my grandmother’s.

All of us at Lunapads couldn’t be happier to see images of the beginings of a long term sustainable solution for the girls.  Thanks again Carrie-Jane for your amazing work and bringing Lunapads to Uganda.