Smalls for All
1 week 6 days ago
Thanks to you, we were recently able to provide underwear to Madison Lindeman, a PhD student in Global Political Economy. Madison is currently based in Mbarara, Uganda, conducting her doctoral research which focuses on how women experience menstruation in their daily lives. This mainly includes women who live or work in informal environments, such as housewives, sex workers, market workers, etc.
Back in February, Madison told us, “The underwear will be donated to women living in Mbarara, Uganda. I am working with other organisations, such as Period Talk Uganda, where we host menstrual education sessions in Mbarara and Kampala. With this donation, we can organise a session in a slum or village within Mbarara City where menstrual education will be provided in an effort to reduce menstrual stigma. In addition, underwear will be distributed alongside reusable menstrual pads. Women do face the challenge here of owning/purchasing quality underwear alongside the additional challenge of purchasing menstrual pads each month. I am also working with health centres in Mbarara City that work with vulnerable and marginalised populations, and the underwear would also be distributed to women seeking health services at this centre if there is extra after hosting an outreach session.”
Madison has since come back to us with some photos and to say, “Thanks again for the donation - Period Talk Uganda held the event in collaboration with Action for Improved Health and Wealth on April 26th in Kijungu area in Mbarara, Uganda. We were able to distribute underwear, reusable pads, and soap to 150 female sex workers. We were also able to get approximately 30 male sex workers to attend the event to help provide sexual and reproductive health education as well as working to destigmatise menstruation.”
Thank you for helping us to help Madison to help them, Maria. 🩲🩳🙏
Donations of new pants and new or gently worn bras can be sent to Smalls for All, Five Sisters Business Park, Westwood, West Calder, EH55 8PN
www.smallsforall.org/buy-to-give/
