Your donation will allow these girls to sustain themselves with reusable sanitary pads for two years. Additionally, they will have the capacity to teach others, advocating for a lifestyle that provides freedom of choice rather than succumbing to the prevailing customs in their community, resulting in teenage pregnancy and raising babies without the opportunity to finish their education. Thank you in advance for participating in this impactful project.

Welcome to Overflowing Joy, a project of International Leadership Outreach, impacting the lives of 15 girls in Kimilili, Kenya, by having them taught how to make their own sanitary pads. In rural Kenya, girls do not attend school 4 to 7 days a month for lack of sanitary pads. As a result, they fall behind, perform poorly, and some are only average when it comes to the examination. Young girls get pregnant because now they are forced to sleep with men so they can buy sanitary pads. Most of them sleep without protection, and unfortunately, 20% of these young girls get pregnant, and when they get pregnant, they drop out of school because the parents cannot sustain them and their children.

Starting a small-scale project and supporting young girls at risk of dropping out of school because of the lack of sanitary pads can significantly impact these innocent young girls who cannot sustain themselves on their monthly period. These girls' lives will be transformed by having the opportunity to stay in school, not rely on alternative means of obtaining sanitary pads, and have the freedom to form their future. Your participation in this project creates the possibility of pleasure, exquisite delight, and abundant joy for yourself and others.

Introducing the concept of reusable sanitary pads to the women in Kimilili, Kenya, created excitement as they saw this as an opportunity to change these girls' destiny.

International Leadership Outreach created a team of women across international boundaries to assist in supporting this project, working together to empower the girls in Kimilili, Kenya, to learn this valuable skill.

These women are:

Karrie Tolin and Breezy Lane from Tacoma, Washington

Jean Bons from Pasco, Washington

Margaret and Grace Tindivale from Kimilili, Kenya

Joyce Wamalwa from Kininini, Kenya

Tabitha Mwendwa, Superintendent of Kibichori Secondary School

Clara Nanyuli, Home Science teacher and friend of Tabitha

Costs:

$450 for three teacher's monthly salary

$190 for second-hand fleece transported from Mombasa to Kimilili, Kenya

$160 for a business license

$400 for machine maintenance and accessories

$1,200 Total

Sponsor one girl for $80. Every dollar will be matched by a private donor who has already agreed to underwrite the project; therefore, raising $1,200 will fulfill $2,400 in total revenue.