Today, I'll be doing a monthly sewing activity at church, to benefit Days for Girls. Each month, I go for an hour or two, sew, and visit. Throughout the month, I sew here and there, when I have extra thread I need to use up.
Why Days for Girls Matters
What if not having sanitary supplies meant DAYS without school? Days of isolation? Girls
use leaves, mattress stuffing, newspaper, corn husks, rocks, anything they can find...but
still miss up to 2 months of education and opportunity every year. It turns out this issue is a surprising but instrumental key to social change for women all over the world.--from the DFG website
I am SO grateful to live in the United States of America, and that my girls and I have the opportunity to receive an unbroken education, regardless of feminine hygiene needs.
ALL skill levels are needed. If you'd like to help, but don't sew, they still need you! For more information, Google Days for Girls and your community.
I may not do everything great in the eyes of my teenagers, but I think they are proud of this small act of service for girls we've never met, across the world.
I don't want to learn to thread a serger, so my "job" each time is to sew these already-serged strips of flannel to the wider flannel.
Later, the wider edges will be serged, then the whole unit will be cut into smaller units and serged on the outer edges again.
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