Earlier this Feb we had an awesome opportunity to meet with Nancy and Margo. Some of you may remember that I first met Nancy Meering (in Boston at a Gathering for Hope meeting at her church) She was in Nairobi for a number of missions and we were able to have a sit down. Nancy […]
Category: Kenyan girls
Moving forward
It has been an interesting Q1 for us here at PTW. We have been working on our Annual report submission to the NGO Board, the first of which we were ever doing, so it was all new! A number of girls have been supported to go back to school, to be honest it has been […]
Lewa Foundation supporting efforts to help keep girls in school
In rural Kenya, 1 in every 10 girls will miss school for 4 days in a month during her menses due to lack of proper sanitary supplies. This totals to 36 days in a 9 month school year. If not missing school, the girl is forced to use inappropriate and unhygienic materials that do not […]
Started off with a bang | January 2013
If you have been following our blog here or our facebook group page then you know we have been busy welcoming Kathleen of One for you, One for her who has been in the country for a few days. It has been exciting, busy but most of all eye opening in the work we have managed […]
Lewa Wildlife Conservancy Sewing Program
The Lewa Wildlife Conservancy have a sewing program that reccently requested for some assistance with sanitary towels for the girls in the area who were missing school because they lacked. We discussed whether to go with the disposable ones or whether implementation of a reuseable sanitary towel program could be feasible or not. Yes is […]