PA Collection Point Update for July 2025

We are so grateful to everyone who continues to send donations, supplies, and components to the PA Collection Point!

Our most needed item is regular liners. We also need carry pouches, washcloths, and women’s small and medium underwear.

We hope to see you at the Days for Girls Regional Meet up in PA on September 19th and 20th. DfG Registration links are at the end of this post.

We will have a packing day on September 21st and those attending the regional meet up are welcome to stay and participate. We are hoping that teams will bring sewn components as well as washcloths and underwear to the conference. We will be asking some of our partners to donate washcloths and underwear to us by September 20th too. If you’re interested in doing a washcloth and underwear drive for us please email pacollectionpoint@daysforgirls.org and we can send you some information to share with your group.

Speaking of underwear and washcloths… Our “to be dyed” pile is becoming a mountain! We have a group of enthusiastic students who have volunteered to tackle it all in one day. If your DfG team has a “to be dyed” pile that you’ve been putting off, send it our way in the next two weeks. Or drop it off at our packing day on August 16th which is the deadline to get it to the volunteers in time.

The up-date below includes some repeated information so you can send it along to a friend that is new to Days for Girls. If you are a regular subscriber, skip down to Project Updates (just below the first picture) for the latest in PA Collection Point News.

Days for Girls works to eliminate the stigma and limitations associated with menstruation so that women and girls have improved health, education and livelihoods. To date, we have reached over 3.5 million women and girls with our life-changing menstrual health solutions.

The PA Collection Point receives components for the DfG menstrual health kits from other DfG teams around the country and from individual donors. Locally, GCASC Interact and Global Scholars help out during their club meetings and volunteer hours so that we can get items prepped for packing quickly. We coordinate with the Days for Girls International Project Manager, The Mercer County Career Center for shipping, and other nonprofit partners to make sure the kits are delivered efficiently. We are exceedingly grateful for our host George Junior Republic for allowing us to use a building on their campus, helping us with large packages, and really exceeding our expectations of neighborliness.

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 to purchase supplies. You can send us monetary donations through: Donate to the PA Collection Point as well as sending needed items directly to us through our Amazon Wish List. The other way to help us is to follow us on social media and share our posts: @dfg_pacollectionpoint and Facebook. If you are interested in donating your time you can volunteer with us. Please use this email to inquire about volunteer opportunities: pacollectionpoint@daysforgirls.org

Individual Donors and DfG Teams get their shipping reimbursed when they place an order for underwear – through the online resource shop – with the shipping address listing the collection point. You will need to pay for the order and the shipping, then email resources@daysforgirls.org to ask for the shipping to be reimbursed.

Days for Girls Collection Point
GJR Receiving Dept.
233 George Junior Road
Grove City, PA 16127

Getting DfG underwear at the collection point is a huge help. This means we do not have to measure/size the underwear because they are already the correct DfG size. This saves us tons of time! And this underwear is ethically sourced and made to specifications that we know works well with our DfG products.

Underwear is always our most needed item. Specifically, we need women’s small and medium underwear. Our largest order has requested these sizes.

The Pittsburgh North DfG Team came to the July 19th packing day and helped us finish the Global Links order.
Extra kits were packed so that we can be ready to fill future orders or send kits with humanitarian aid when needed.
And it was a good thing we did… we were able to fill orders in late July with these kits.

Project Updates:

Throughout the year, we will be working on an order for Global Links(totaling 5,000 kits). These kits will be distributed at various clinics and birthing centers in Latin and South America. For this project we will need women’s small and medium underwear. At the beginning of February, we took a pallet of boxed kits to Mercer County Career Center that the students palleted, wrapped, and shipped out for us. We also took a pallet’s worth of components and worked with students and Grove City Days for Girls team members to set up a packing assembly line. The students worked on this pallet while our Collection Point team worked on the pallets for DTCare for their relief efforts in Ukraine. Both the Global Links pallet and two pallets for DTCare shipped out at the end of March. In April, we sent Global Links a pallet and a half of Extra Long (Heavy Flow) kits. The last pallet of kits for Global Links came together slowly as we experienced a slow down in donations in late spring and early summer. We completed the order in July but we will have to wait to ship the pallet until September.

We can ship pallets of kits September through May with Mike Whalen, the Logistics, Materials, and Supply Chain Instructor at Mercer County Career Center. We do not currently have an option for shipping pallets in June, July, and August.

Projects you helped us to compete in 2025:

In January: we were able to complete and ship just over 400 kits to the Shara Foundation that will go to people in Grenada. This was a quick turnaround order and we were grateful to have enough components on hand to fill it quickly. Your regular contributions made that possible.

In February: One pallet (1242 kits) shipped to Global Links. These kits will be distributed at various clinics and birthing centers in Latin and South America.

In March: One pallet (1242 kits) shipped to Global Links. These kits will be distributed at various clinics and birthing centers in Latin and South America. Two pallets (2484 kits) to DTCare for their relief efforts in Ukraine.

In April: One and a half pallets of extra long (heavy flow) kits to Global Links (1,440 kits). These kits will be distributed at various clinics and birthing centers in Latin and South America. At the end of April, 100 kits made their way to a team who will be traveling to Haiti in May to distribute them.

In June: 50 kits were sent to Niger. This order came to us through the Days for Girls website which allows individuals to order kits and learn how to distribute kits with education. On the same page of the website, groups wanting to distribute kits can email DfG to hire a trainer in their distribution area.

In July: We finished packing the Global Links order but we will have to wait until the fall to ship it to them. 200 kits were sent to Peru. This order came to us through the DfG website.

13 kits were given to Matsiko World Orphan Choir – International Children’s Network while they were in Grove City for a performance. They were able to come on the one day this month that the Grove City Team and the Collection Point meet together so we all got to witness what our partnership can do. The Grove City team made the connection with the choir and told them about DfG and the Collection Point had some kits on hand so we were able to make this connection work quickly. Three of the choir members came with a chaperone to the collection point and sang a song for us. They were thrilled to get the kits.

I gave a quick demonstration on how to put the pad in underwear for the girls. In their choir, the older girls teach the younger girls so this will be something they can pass along through their already established mentor/mentee practice. Each girl will receive a DfG trifold in their native language so they have access to the DfG education. Because we knew the girls underwear sizes and languages, we wrote their names on the tags to ensure everyone got what they needed. When I picked up a kit for them to hold in the photo it was actually the kit for the girl on the right. She hasn’t had a period yet, but she is looking forward to using her kit when the time comes.

Choir members received kits while visiting Grove City on their concert tour in July.
Matsiko World Orphan Choir – International Children’s Network

Volunteering at the Collection Point:

The collection point team is able to assist volunteers on Saturdays so that we can make a big impact monthly towards our collection point goals. I hope that your team will take advantage of coming to see how the collection point works, network with other teams, and see the impact we can all make together. Our next Saturday events: August 16th, September 19th -20th is the regional meet up so our packing day will be Sunday, September 21st, October 18th, and November 15th. We are not planning to have a Saturday event in December unless it’s needed to make a deadline.

We meet from 10am to 2pm. Lunch break is at noon. You are welcome to bring your lunch or go out to eat. We usually have water, coffee, and light snacks available. Please let me know if your team plans to attend one of these Saturday events so that I can plan our work accordingly. I’ll also send out parking instructions to those who RSVP. Even if you’ve worked with us before and don’t need the instructions for parking, please RSVP so I know you are coming and can plan activities accordingly.