Nest Consulting Teams up with “Days for Girls”
Nest Consulting Teams up with “Days for Girls”
Auckland company Nest
Consulting (www.nestconsulting.co.nz) have an
exciting new project for the beginning of 2016!
Usually
you will find Nest's staff assisting in the community and
teaching in schools promoting awareness, understanding and
empowerment around health and wellbeing. This year they are
also looking to assist further afield.
They are linking up
with the awesome charity 'Days for Girls New
Zealand'. http://www.daysforgirls.org
and are
organising a trip to Cambodia in early July. Why?: To
distribute recyclable menstrual packs, provide information
and education about their care and use and facilitate
puberty info lessons to the girls and women living in rural
communities.
This project involves the entire community
with individuals, Guides, Girls Brigade and other groups
invited to contribute by either:
* sewing recyclable pads
(patterns provided)
* holding a 'sewathon'
*
collecting donations
Nest Consulting's senior Educator
has completed the Days for Girls training to provide the
education, practical skills and information crucial to each
community in regards to hygiene, care of kits and
understanding/de-stigmatising around
menstruation.
Providing girls with such packs enables them to attend school more regularly and breaks a cycle of poverty. Not having sanitary supplies meant DAYS without school and Days of isolation. Girls use leaves, mattress stuffing, newspaper, corn husks, rocks, anything they can find...but still miss up to 2 months of education and opportunity every year. It turns out this issue is a surprising but instrumental key to social change for women all over the world.
Days for Girls
info:
• Founded in 2008
• Minimal 4%
overhead
• Days for Girls kits last 2-3
years
• Each kit gives girls 180 days over 3
years
• Presence on 6 continents
• Serving in 85+
countries
• Reached over 200,000 girls...and
counting!
ENDS