Did you know some women do without panties on a daily basis?
Here’s a picture to work with:
You live in a small one bedroom mabati (corrugated iron sheet) house in a slum somewhere, sewage runs outside your home – be it Bombay, Peru, Mukuru wherever.You are preganat. You have 3 children and a husband who may or may not come home at the end of the day, depending on what day it is. You stopped caring. Each morning you wake up at 5.00 am to cook porridge for the kids – this is a day you are lucky to have the porridge because you got a kibarua (day job) yesterday you could afford it. You leave home at 6.15 am for the 1 hour walk to industrial area in time to see if kibarua is available for the day. There’s the usual group of friends gathered outside the factory, its 8.00 am and it’s raining you are wet and muddy. You stand near them and try to blend in whilst covering yourself under your paper bag hand bag.
There comes the supervisor with his board and list of how many casuals are needed today. “You! this way” as he points me towards the little gate. I’m elated!
Its 5 pm the factory has closed. You made Kshs 100/ $1.20 time to treck home – kerosene in hand, maize flour in hand for ugali, need to spare some money to buy water also. You are left with Kshs 20/ $0.25 that will be enough to get the exercise book for Johnnie.
I can see how panties become a luxury, can you? If you never had you are never are able to squeeze in that penny to buy them life priorities are bigger than the little we have.
One panty will cost you Kshs 50, buy one and help our efforts… Path to Womanhood Foundation is looking to reach more than 2,00 girls in 2013 with panties and sanitary towels its a necessity for every womans health and personal hygiene.
