The Menstrual Pad Project!

The Conscious Connections Foundation and Ganesh Himal Trading are also launching a new Menstrual Pad Project in Nepal designed to create income for women in the remote village of Baseri and provide cloth menstrual pad kits for the 180 girls who receive Power of 5 scholarships! Inspired by Days for Girls, CCF needs to raise $1000 to purchase 1-2 treadle sewing machines for the Baseri Clinic, buy local fair trade material for the kits, train women in Baseri to sew the Days For Girls cloth menstrual kits and then coordinate distributing them to the Power of 5 girls scholarship recipients. All of this done in Nepal! It’s a win-win-win AND a great way for fair trade stores to get involved in funding a meaningful on the ground project. Most of us don’t realize that not having sanitary supplies often means DAYS without school for girls. And without gear for their periods girls can miss up to 2 months of school every year! It seems natural that if CCF raises money for scholarships for girls we need to also give them the gear they need to go to school! Of course we’ll look for your support in days to come and if you want to start a fundraising project in your store to help raise funds (like the Power of 5 bookmark campaign) Then stay tuned for the tales and teachings of Period Paddie! or call us at 509-448-6561! If you would like to make a tax deductible donation to this project you can write a check to: Conscious Connections Foundation PO Box 342 Spokane, WA 99210 Please write: Menstrual Project in the memo line! You can also donate here:

  Conscious Connections Foundation www.consciousconnectionsfoundation.org is a registered 501(c)3 with the IRS and all donations are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. Tax #47-1602190.