Collecting Feminine Items for Girls of Sudan
2 min readKXMBTV Bismarck
Normally the phrase, “don’t get your panties in a bunch” means “calm down”.
But a group wants you to get riled up about getting LOTS of panties in a bunch.
This pile of donated underwear and feminine hygiene products will soon be shipped to South Sudan.
Deb Dawson with African Soul, American Heart has traveled to South Sudan four times.
She says young women there often drop out of school after hitting puberty because a lack of supplies.
(Deb Dawson/African Soul, American Heart Board President) “I mean you can imagine if you have your menstrual cycle and you have no way to manage that, you’re literally home-bound for a week a month, if you miss a week a month from school, you’re not going to stay in school, because it’s too difficult, you fall behind, kids make fun of you, and it’s embarrassment.”
Dawson first heard about orphan issues after meeting a “Lost Boy” of Sudan named Joseph who lived in Fargo.
Since then, their organization has collected thousands of pairs of underwear to donate to girls in two villages… and it has many other projects dedicated to educating orphans.
(Dawson) “They’ll literally circle me and Dance because they’re so happy that these things are coming to help girls in their village, they told me that when they were young, they didn’t know it was important to educate women, they didn’t have education themselves, a lot of men didn’t get education at that time either, but they say now they’ve seen educated women and what a difference it has made in their lives and they want this for their daughters or the orphans that they care for.”
She will deliver the collected “bunch” of supplies after Thanksgiving.
To learn more about the nonprofit organization…
http://www.kxnet.com/getArticle.asp?ArticleId=853046
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