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Our Goods 4 Girls campaign continues to inspire scores of women to help girls in Africa. The latest inspiration is Anna Hawfield who, upon reading about Loretta’s trip to Kenya (which is a very moving blog post) contacted Lunapads to see how she could help while volunteering for International Volunteer HQ. Anna will be distributing Lunapads Goods 4 Girls Kits through the help of Africa Youth Trust, a local NGO that has overseen similar projects in the past. Anna will be in Nairobi for 6 weeks starting in November. To stay on top of her trip, check out her blog here at Cycle of Hope.

Just before leaving for her trip, Anna joined a women’s networking group called SECT (Southeastern Connecticut Women’s Network) and attended a local meeting of the Mastermind Group. “The core purpose of the Mastermind group is to work co-creatively with women locally and globally to facilitate them with empowerment projects in their own lives and communities. Mastermind recognizes women as an underutilized resource in the world. When these women are supported to realize their potential the quality of life world wide improves.”

In just a few weeks, Anna and generous members of SECT raised over $1,500 to fund the purchase of over 50 Lunapads Goods 4 Girls Kits. Way to go ladies! We’re looking forward to getting an update from Anna when she arrives in Nairobi and updates the blog with her story and pictures.

We are so happy to see how the act of global community service is spreading among the Lunapads community and beyond. Please contact us if you want to participate or share your story.

Let me share a story with you…

This summer my boyfriend and I went to help our friend out with his newly ‘inherited’ orchard (he’s the 4th generation to run Parsons Farm Market.) We lived in an ancient little camper with our cat, Tabitha (isn’t she just too cute in a bin of pears?!) on the edge of said orchard, with no water hook-up. This orchard has a fruit stand which all the food we grew was sold out of – and of course being a public place there were bathrooms, which also served as our bathroom. However to get to the bathrooms from our camper at night you had to stumble down the road in pitch black, manage to scoot past the tractors and pallets, move around the bins of fruit, jump the large puddle at the end of the path – all while trying to hold those inane fears of ‘things that go bump in the night’ at bay.

This situation was less than ideal but luckily I had an alternative…the pStyle! An amazing little invention (much like the Diva Cup!) that gives one the freedom to pee standing up without undressing.

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