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.
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.
Project Updates:
January:
The collection point meets on Thursdays and in December, Christmas and New Year’s holidays were on Thursdays so our meetings were cut short. We also did not have a Saturday event in December so that our team had the weekend to spend with families. When we gathered again in January there were lots of packages to open: underwear, packing tape and sharpies, components, and even a few holiday cards and thank you notes. It was a great way to start the new year!
135 kits were sent with the Grove City Alliance Church to be distributed in Mexico in early January.
The last pallet (1242 kits) for the World Vision Project was completed and we had hoped to ship all three pallets together this month but weather has delayed the shipment.
A pallet of XL kits (1080) was packed and shipment to Cuba is delayed because of our weather.
We are hopeful that the pallets will ship when the road conditions improve enough for us to get the kits to the Mercer County Career Center and when weather is warm enough for the MCCC to be open to palletize them.
Karie preached at Unity Presbyterian Church and coordinated with their mission committee chair so that they can do a collection drive for washcloths and underwear in the future.
Somehow, we didn’t manage to take a single picture in January (the picture above is from a screen shot of Unity’s YouTube channel). We will try again next month to capture the work and the smiles.
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. We will not have a Saturday event in December.
Our 2026 Saturdays: February 21st, March 21st, April 18th, May 16th, June 20th, July 18th, August 15th, September 19th, October 17th, and November 21st.
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.
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