Hello everyone, my name is Sarah, I am a Girl Scout Cadette working on my Silver Award. My project is to make little dresses for young girls in Africa, and washable pads for the teenage girls there. I am currently working with an organization called “Little Dresses for Africa”. Did you know that teenage girls in developing countries skip up to 20% of school a year? Some even stop going to school altogether. This is because they don’t have proper sanitary pads to use and must use other resources such as leaves, mud, rags, newspaper, grass, etc. In the end, the girls must choose between humiliation of managing their period with no proper resources at school or stay at home. I have chosen this project because I believe nothing should prevent anyone from getting the education they deserve. To make this project possible there will be two workshops, where adults and girls can help make the dresses and washable pads. I will teach basic sewing to volunteers that need training. There will be a sign up where anyone interested can participate for service hours. Also, I am creating a brochure so that more people can become aware of what is going on, and has been happening in developing countries.
At the end, I will sort all the dresses and washable pads by sizes and ship them to Mrs. O’Neill from “Little Dresses for Africa”. She will send them to Africa soon after.
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