Permaculture People Care: Please join me in helping these young women in Kenyan villages

Did you know that 1 million girls in Kenya miss up to a week of school each month because they have no means to manage their period? Many girls and young women find themselves in so much hardship, and compromised situations, just to access pads.

Please join me in helping vulnerable girls: permaculture people care in action

Jenipher Nyangah is a compassionate and committed permaculture activist in Kenya who is hand-sewing durable, washable kits from fabric offcuts and delivering them to vulnerable girls in village schools around her region – providing them with basic hygiene and human rights education. Jenipher also values that this is helping to use reclaimed and re-usable materials and that plastic sanitary pads are not polluting the environment.

I just started a GoFundMe campaign to support Jenipher – she is a local woman dedicated to helping girls in her region. Jenipher not only sews the pads and travels around to schools to give the kits out for free to the girls, she teaches them about their bodies, about their rights and how to protect and respect themselves and stay healthy.

Please support generously. Everything will be going to help more vulnerable girls in rural Kenyan villages. All funds go to help her get more treadle sewing machines and fabric, so she can also teach more women to sew sanitary kits and teach girls, and she can reach and help more girls.

Click HERE TO DONATE and to read more, see some pictures and video clips and please share if you care to.

About the Author

MORAG GAMBLE Blog is an award-winning Australian permaculture designer, speaker, author, blogger, film-maker and teacher. She creates the popular Our Permaculture Life Blog and YouTube channel, offers online permaculture education – The Incredible Edible Garden and the Permaculture Educators Program, a combined Permaculture Design Certificate and Permaculture Teacher Certificate.

Morag is the founder and Executive Director of the Permaculture Education Institute and runs a small permaculture charity, Ethos Foundation. Each month she also offers free online monthly masterclasses.

Morag is an urban permaculture pioneer and cofounder of the Australian City Farms and Community Gardens Network and Northey Street City Farm in Brisbane.

Morag offers a wealth of knowledge of all things permaculture and has taught in 22 countries – she is always teaching and sharing. Morag’s natural habitat is her award-winning edible landscape at Crystal Waters Ecovillage.

One Response

Margo August 20, 2018 at 8:58 am | Permalink

What great work, so goid to see this is happening at a local level.
There is a world wide organisation called “Days for Girls ” they do the sewing of these kits and there are sometimes a group in your local area that you can join to help out, donate or support in some way.They also provide soap and cliplock bags so the washing only uses a tiny amount of precious water.
Such a life changing helping hand for these girls.

Morag Gamble

My name is Morag Gamble and I am living and working a permaculture life. I live an ‘Off-the-Grid’ lifestyle in a permaculture village near Maleny in the subtropical part of southeast Queensland, Australia with my husband and 3 young children.

We designed and built our modular eco-home – with much appreciated help from my family. We are mortgage-free and live simply. Our income is derived from permaculture-related activities. We grow a lot of vegetables, herbs and fruit in the polycultural garden-playground surrounding our home. We collect our water, deal with our wastewater on-site and produce most of our own power.

I love this way of living and I love bringing my children up in this environment. They are Nature Kids and they are learning vital skills for resilience, compassion and future problem solving through our ecological unschooling approach.

I am also passionate about how this way of life can make a positive contribution to society and support ecological regeneration.

Margo August 20, 2018 at 8:58 am | Permalink

What great work, so goid to see this is happening at a local level.
There is a world wide organisation called “Days for Girls ” they do the sewing of these kits and there are sometimes a group in your local area that you can join to help out, donate or support in some way.They also provide soap and cliplock bags so the washing only uses a tiny amount of precious water.
Such a life changing helping hand for these girls.