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8 News Record • Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Girls in South Africa receiving their "Days for girls" kits from H.U.G.S.
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Days for girls kits being made locally
Lynda Hillman-Rapley
Postmedia Network
When Charles and Coleen
Deiner, of the Rotary Club Of
Middleburg, ZA visited Grand
Bend last spring they not only
brought news to the local
Rotary Club about the Global
Literacy Program for South
Africa students but they also
took in a session of milk bag
plastic mat making to see how
they are woven.
The Deiners, the Grand Bend
Rotary Club along with Rotary
Club members in Africa, are
key to setting up schools with
surplus equipment, school fur-
niture and books from schools
closed in our area.
While the Deiners chatted
with the volunteers making the
plastic mats, they discussed the
need for supplies for girls to stay
in school. "Girls worldwide suf-
fer indignities, infection, even
exploitation trying to stay in
school. By not having sanitary
supplies the girls could not go
to school for days. Days of isola-
tion. Girls use leaves, mattress
stuffing, newspaper, corn
husks, rocks, anything they can
find...but still miss up to two
months of education and
opportunity every year." They
explain that it turns out this
issue is a surprising but instru-
mental key to social change for
women all over the world. And
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Helping to Understand Girls Situation (H.U.G.S) create kits for girls
'n South Africa to be able to attend school on all days. Committee
members are front from left: Brenda Hennessey, Jeannette
Stellingwerff, Jan Sloane. Back from left: Clara DeVries, Linda
Soldan.
from that reality came Days for
Girls kits and a lot of help from
our local community. These kits
enable the girls to stay in school
continuously.
The kits consist of a draw-
string bag containing 2 shields,
8 pads, 2 pairs of underwear, 2
large safety pins, 1 medium zip
lock bag, 1 wash cloth and 1 bar
of soap.
To date, says the group of
women who call them-
selves H.U.G.S. (Helping to
Understand Girls Situa-
tion) have jumped on board
to help the girls say, "Dona-
tions from individuals of fab-
ric and sewing supplies plus
financial donations from the
Grand Bend Rotary Club, a
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woman's church group and
individuals have enabled 187
kits to be made, assembled
and shipped in the last six
months:'
The committee behind this
project, Jeannette Stellingw-
erff, Clara Devries, Brenda
Hennessey and Jan Sloane is
the same group that assem-
bles the kits for shipping with
a group of dedicated volun-
teer sewers.
"This endeavor is very
important to our group and
close to our hearts. We believe
this project is vital to keep girls
in school continuing their
education to ensure a bright
and promising future for each
and every one of them.
"Our goal for 2016 has been
set at 400 kits so all donations,
whether supplies or financial,
very gratefully received and
will be put to very good use,"
said Soldan.
If you would like to donate to
this project the items needed
are: cotton material for draw
string bags, used flannel sheets
for pads, new ladies full cotton
briefs sizes small and medium,
large safety pins, zip lockplastic
bags size medium, material
"pul" from Fabricland at $30 a
metre, otton yarn for wash
cloths, Guitermann thread in
white or any colour.
Donations can be dropped
off in Grand Bend with Jean-
nette Stellingwerff, 519-238-
8557, at 20 Sauble Road and in
Exeter with Linda Soldan, 519-
235-1561, at 157 McConnell
Street.
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