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West Michigan Woman Magazine Feature Profile
Wonderfully Made: Empowering Women One Pad at a Time
West Michigan Woman Magazine published a profile interview with Donna regarding the project underway for It's Our Mission:Period! Donna spent some time with Erika Fifelski, West Michigan Woman magazine's editorial coordinator last week and Erika put together this great article. Thank so much Erika for believing in the project and helping us get the word out!
To read the article in its entirety, click on the photo to the left.
West Michigan Woman Magazine published a profile interview with Donna regarding the project underway for It's Our Mission:Period! Donna spent some time with Erika Fifelski, West Michigan Woman magazine's editorial coordinator last week and Erika put together this great article. Thank so much Erika for believing in the project and helping us get the word out!
To read the article in its entirety, click on the photo to the left.
WZZM Channel 13, Grand Rapids, Michigan:
Take Five Segment with Jennifer Ackerman Haywood, Craft Editor
Jennifer Ackerman Haywood highlighted the project in a recent craft segment at Channel 13 WZZM, Grand Rapids, Michigan. It's Our Mission. Period. is a project led by Donna Terpstra, a mother, missionary and co-founder of Coopersville-based It's Our Mission: Period! Terpstra is working with her husband, Jon, and an army of West Michigan volunteers to empower young women in Kenya. Terpstra's charity effort enlists volunteers to sew washable feminine hygiene products for middle school girls in Kenya. Jennifer Ackerman Haywood has written about the effort and shows viewers how they can get involved. The problem is that girls in Kenya don't have access to mass produced feminine hygiene products and often have to miss a week of school during their periods. West Michigan crafters are doing their part to get the girls the supplies they need to feel empowered, embrace their womanhood and go about their lives without interruption.
Click on the picture above to view this video
and complete story!
Special thanks to Jennifer, for supporting this great cause.
http://craftsanity.com/
Click on the picture above to view this video
and complete story!
Special thanks to Jennifer, for supporting this great cause.
http://craftsanity.com/
Grand Rapids, Michigan MLive:
Tallmadge Township Woman Leading Effort to Help African Girls
Portions from this MLive article:
Now consider this: Many African girls do not have access to underwear — let alone the appropriate feminine hygiene products. As a result, the young girls use rags, leaves, toilet paper or, in some cases, nothing at all during menstruation. And because these methods are not reliable, young girls routinely skip school for several days every month to avoid embarrassment. This means a teenage school girl could miss more than 150 days of high school. And for many girls, education is their only ticket to advancement.
“No woman should be cursed to disempowerment by the natural act of monthly periods,” Terpstra said. “The bottom line is that the natural process of menstruation should disadvantage no girl.”
Amen, sister! (Click on the picture to the left to read the article in its entirety.)
Now consider this: Many African girls do not have access to underwear — let alone the appropriate feminine hygiene products. As a result, the young girls use rags, leaves, toilet paper or, in some cases, nothing at all during menstruation. And because these methods are not reliable, young girls routinely skip school for several days every month to avoid embarrassment. This means a teenage school girl could miss more than 150 days of high school. And for many girls, education is their only ticket to advancement.
“No woman should be cursed to disempowerment by the natural act of monthly periods,” Terpstra said. “The bottom line is that the natural process of menstruation should disadvantage no girl.”
Amen, sister! (Click on the picture to the left to read the article in its entirety.)
Should you or your mission determine to distribute pads/packets, the project and its design/pattern/system concept
belongs exclusively to It's Our Mission: Period.
belongs exclusively to It's Our Mission: Period.
