A huge thank you to everyone who purchased an Empower Kit through GladRags.com -- your donations are making a difference! Read on to hear from Patty how cloth menstrual pads can help empower women in Africa.

teaching families about cloth menstrual pads

I just returned from Uganda and had a wonderful time. The new uniforms and sanitary kits were well received. Hussein stood in front of the village parents and gave a speech about the importance of girls and education and about the GladRags cloth menstrual pad kits - some of the parents got embarrassed and Hussein was really funny addressing their embarrassment. Amazing that a school in rural Uganda has a more "open" community about talking on girl's issues than we do here in the states!

empower kit

There is a teacher at the schools that meets monthly with older girls to talk all about their personal issues - like a mentor - really cool. We are encouraging the girls who got sanitary kits to pick a younger girl at the school to mentor and take under their wing in order to help them be more comfortable with talking about girl issues.

Thank you for all your support and feel free to continue contributing if you would like to - we can't express our appreciation enough to all those who support One School at a Time.

Patty Gilbert, Co-founder of One School at a Time