FEMpads plus et plus

Well it's been a while since my last post, but I am delighted to give an update of the progress of my project.

Since I last wrote I have sent 75 pads to SkyKids Uganda, a second box to Rwanda to be distributed in Democratic Republic of Congo, another place in Uganda, Kenya and a box to India which my worldpulse sister Ch Urmila distributed on her mamouth expedition to rural villages in India to teach young women about Menstruation.

I attended a feminist meeting in my home town of Worcester (they donated the evenings takings for my project). Thanks to them. They are spreading the word via a project called The Red Tent in Birmingham, UK. I also sold my first couple of FEMpads to one of their members so that was exciting.

A lady from a very large charity has requested a sample of a FEMpad as her charity is looking into doing similar work - she also thinks she will be able to assist with funding.

A friend called Jenger in the Netherlands is starting to make a web page for me in January.

I have received an invite to give a talk at the Friends Meeting House in the city - they will then provide some funding for further batches to be sent.

Private funding is still slowly coming in - thank you to Shumi and family.

Today I have prepared a box to send to Worldpulse sister Benedicte Boulangaire.

I have 3 orders waiting, 1 for Malawi (box sent to a different place their before), an order for South Sudan - this will prove very costly as they have no postal system so I will have to use a courier, but another Worldpulse sister, Yvette, has promised to assist with this.

Last night I had another order and this will be funded by dear Anne Seery from Australia.

So we are going from strength to strength.

One of the boxes for Rwanda didn't seem to arrive so I telephoned a manager in Kigali post office and despite my exceedingly bad French and his not much better English we managed to establish the need for me to send all information by email when he sent his email address to my phone after the call. It worked and the box was found the next day and Mugisho collected it in time for distribution this weekend. On leaving the post office a man asked if he received good service and he explained the delay that had occured. He asked if he was Mugisho and gave him a business card for future deliveries and said he was the one, Balthazar, whom I had rung the day before. Whoopee what a great thing.

So that's it for now folks - but I am quite pleased with how things are going. Watch this space!!!!!