MAY 28 and JUNE 1

MENSTRUAL CUPS

Nice coverage by the BBC.  

MENSTRUAL HYGIENE DAY

If you've been reading this blog, you probably know quite well that today is Menstrual Hygiene Day.  Around the world, volunteers worked to help eliminate period stigma and provide girls and women with solutions to managing their periods.  At our Springfield Days for Girls space on 5th Street, about a dozen wonderful volunteers joined in assembling over half of the 500 kits we're putting together for refugees in Lebanon, Syria and Palestine.  We enjoyed delicious food, fun conversations and a great feeling of accomplishment.  Thanks to you all!

Today is Menstrual Hygiene Day! Celebrate by ensuring EVERY single girl has access to safe menstrual care and education. No more shame. No more missed school. Let’s create a better world for women. 🌼 🌺 🌸

CAN YOU JOIN US SATURDAY?

Putting all those kits together today made a serious dent in our supplies, so when we meet again on Saturday, June 1, we've got a lot of tasks needing doing.  If you're a sewing or serging ace, please bring your serger or sewing machine and basic sewing supplies (I do have a few sewing machines you can borrow).  We're having a hard time keeping our sewing and serging apace with all the supportive tasks performed by our prolific non-sewers. 

We'll be at Our Sewing Room from 10 am until just after 4 pm.  OSR has a fridge and microwave available for our use.  Parking on street is limited to 2 hours and monitored, but it's ok to park in the bank lot across the street.  In addition, the library/city hall lots aren't limited on weekends.  AND, not related to parking, (enabler alert), all clothing is half-price on the first weekend of each month at the Hearts for Hospice thrift shop next door.

PLEASE let me know if you are able to come Saturday.

AND, if you've signed up for emails and aren't getting my reminders, maybe yours is one of the ones that bounce each month.  Please supply your email address again next time you join us if you didn't get a reminder today.