Days for Girls and Global Links Cuba Project Update

Great News! All three collection points are contributing to the Cuba Project!!!

That means you can send components and donations to Utah or Missouri or Pittsburgh PA. For all USA Collection Point information, click HERE.

If you would like to support my team in Pittsburgh, you can check out our Facebook and Instagram @pgh_dfgchapter. Like our posts and send us encouragement, your support means “sew” much to us!

Thanks to our friends at First United Methodist Church Pittsburgh for facilitating the pick up of kits with Global Links. We are “sew” lucky to have such a wonderful host church.

Our most needed item is underwear, specifically, Women’s small and medium underwear. Here are ways you can send underwear to us:

Order through Days for Girls. We can order girls extra-large (same as women’s small). We are hoping women’s sizes are available soon.
Underwear that we have ordered in the past can be found on our Amazon wish list.
Order through fruit of a loom women’s sizes 5 and 6
- Dark colors and busy patterns are best (stain busting) Please double check the underwear are at least 50% cotton. We prefer 100% cotton when possible. Bikinis, briefs, hi cuts, and hipsters are all fineNo boy shorts or thongs (our pads snap around the crotch and these styles do not work to hold our pads in place)
- Use code: FRUIT20 to get 20% off

The Days for Girls Mission is simple: creating a more dignified, free and educated world through access to lasting menstrual health. Their tagline is: Every Girl. Everywhere. Period.

The Days for Girls Pittsburgh Chapter is made up of community volunteers, women from the CCC house, and college students. In addition to the DfG mission, we consider it our mission to build relationships with those volunteering with us. We hope that soon that will include some members of FUMC.

We have an order for fill for Global Links for 10,000 kits by the end of 2024. Many DfG teams from around the USA will be sending us components to complete this order. Each standard Days for Girls washable kit includes: 2 waterproof shields, 8 liners, 2 panties, 1 carry pouch, a 100% cotton wash cloth, a small bar of soap, and an ovulation chart and directions, all packaged in a drawstring bag. Those are the things you can see. What you might not notice immediately is that those kits also contain: dignity, education, and independence. These kits and their accompanying education can lift entire communities out of poverty.

To complete these orders we fundraise, request items on our Amazon wish list, and hope to collect JoAnn Fabric Gift cards to purchase supplies. Orders from our Amazon wish list can be shipped directly to FUMC.