By Paige Cooper | Director of Finances
Happy Summer All!
While many are using the warm summer months to take a vacation, GlobeMed students and Set Her Free’s staff have been hard at work these past few months to reevaluate the Pad program started last summer and to plan future projects. This May marked the second GROW (Grassroots on-site work) internship trip made by five GlobeMed students to visit Set Her Free in Kampala. During their visit, the students focused on documenting the stories of Set Her Free participants, following up with Set Her Free alumni, and evaluating the pad program.
Pad Program Update
In the second pad distribution, 190 pad kits were distributed to primary and secondary girls at the Glory of Christ Primary School. This figure is nearly double of what was distributed last year! To further improve the pad program, GlobeMed and Set Her Free are exploring the possibility of expanding what is already offered in the sanitary pad kits to include a razor and additional soap. Feedback from the girls and their teachers are essential to how we will proceed with the program moving forward and will be further outlined in an upcoming distribution and follow up report.
Upcoming Months: Set Her Free Spotlights and A New Project!
By the end of the year, we hope to spotlight more personal interview stories about the pad program and Set Her Free collected from the GROW team this past summer and introduce a new tailoring program project to our Global Giving page. This new project seeks to expand upon Set Her Free’s existing vocational training programs.
Keep on the watch for these new developments and don’t let the summer months slip away!
Best Regards,
The GlobeMed Team
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