REMINDERS

SPECIAL DAYS IN MAY

Our May DFG Workday!  We had a great workday yesterday--Cinco de Mayo.  Many regulars and 7 new volunteers!  A couple of other special days in May are great times to celebrate Days for Girls:  

Mothers' Day,  just a week away, is a great time to show your support for Days for Girls.  If you'd like to honor a mother and support Days for Girls at the same time, I enocourage you to make a contribution online.  When you donate, you'll get a receipt from our headquarters.  If you indicate our Eugene chapter as the recipient (and let me know), I can provide you with a acknowledgment that a contribution was made in honor (or in memory) of whomever you choose--a slip of paper you can tuck in a Mothers' Day card.  

To contribute online to our chapter, go to this special page for donating to teams and chapters.  Scroll down to the box that says "Fundraising Team" or "Fundraising Page" and type in "Eugene" to the right and we should come up.  Click on "DfG Eugene OR Chapter," then "Donate," and fill in your information.

Menstrual Hygiene Day is May 28th.  The date is easy to remember:  5th month for 5 days in a typical period, 28th day for the number of days in an average menstrual cycle.  This is an international day to promote awareness of menstrual management challenges faced by hundreds of millions of girls and women worldwide. It highlights solutions (such the work Days for Girls does) that address these challenges.  There's lots of information on their website, menstrualhygieneday.org.

Menstrual Hygiene Day is also the day our Chapter has chosen to draw the winning ticket in our raffle of a cheerful double bed size quilt.  It's made of scraps left over from sewing our bags and shields.  If  you'd like to buy some chances on the quilt, thereby enabling us to reach more girls and women, please let me know.  One dollar each, or six tickets for $5.

This quilt raffle is our big fundraiser for this year.  I'm delighted with the positive support the raffle has received.

In May, I also have the opportunity to speak to three more groups about Days for Girls.  If you're a member of an organization that would like a presentation, I'd be happy to arrange that with you!

PHOTOS!

I love to include photos from our workdays in this blog.  My challenge is remembering to take them!  So, Friday night I came up with the perfect solution.  I set the alarm on my phone to go off at various times during our workday.  So, you're wondering, then where are the pictures?   I forgot to take the phone to the workday! 

SUPPORT MAKINDU

Makindu Children's Program (which recently took kits to adolescent orphans in Kenya) is having a couple of fundraisers--one is at Oregon Wine Lab Tuesday--Makindu will receive 10% of wine sales, and the other is an online fundraiser (on their website or on this Global Giving fundraiser.  Can you help?

Read the current newsletter on their website to see some of their impressive accomplishments in 2017.

DO YOU TRAVEL?

If you ever know of  somebody traveling to an impoverished area of the world who has available luggage weight allowance, please let me know.  I can check and see if there are enterprises, contacts or kit requests in that area.  It's always delightful to have opportunities to get extra kits transported.  

We also appreciate folks who can transport supplies to teams and chapters working in other first world countries.  Our US prices for and selection of fabric are so much better than what DFG chapters can find in other countries.  I can buy here for them, they can reimburse me via PayPal, and the travelers can check bags as they have weight allowance available.

The handoff is simple--somebody can meet you at the airport or your hotel--your choice.  More lives are changed!

We've got generous travelers taking kits to Peru this week, and more transporting supplies to New Zealand and Africa in the next couple of months!  And maybe another heading to China in the fall.