During September Young’s Rotary Club is marking Basic Education and Literacy Month.
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This project is so important to girls literacy in Nepal.
Young Rotary Club decided two years ago to apply for a matching grant from District 9700 to help fund this project.
Young Rotary have had two grants to date for its Days for Girls project.
The funds have been used to make reusable sanitary kits comprising of two shields, eight flannelette pads, two pair of underwear, one face washer, one cake of soap and two zip lock bags to wash the items in, all contained in a cotton draw string bag.
Club members and friends have been meeting on a regular basis to cut out, sew and pack the kits which have been hand delivered to schools in Nepal.
Each kit, if looked after, should last three years.
Young Rotary heard about this project from Rotarian Mary Brell OAM from Orange Day Break Club who has had many trips to Nepal to schools and orphanages working on the RAWCS Programme (Rotary Australia World Communities Service).
She has also started the “New Schoolies” where year 12 Australian students spend their schoolies working at a school in Nepal.
Mary has personally delivered the kits to girls at the schools she visits.
The kits are life changing to girls as they are not allowed at school while they are menstruating.
They miss out on an average of 157 days schooling. The kits are enabling the girls a full education that they have previously miss out on. Young Rotary has to date sent 200 kits to Nepal and will continue the project while it has funding. There are women’s groups in Australia who are catering for our indigenous girls who are in a similar situation.
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