Thank you to our caring customers!
We have been blown away by the response to our “Goods4Girls” campaign that we blogged about earlier. Launched less than 2 weeks ago on March 5th, customers have already donated 45 kits (37 pad kits, 8 lunapanties kits) and they keep coming. A number of women donated several kits, including a customer who donated 4 kits and purchased nothing else! We will be sending our monthly donation, along with these 45 kits to Goods4Girls this week.
The campaign recently received some local press here in Vancouver. Our local indie paper “The Georgia Straight” intereviewed Deanna Duke of Goods4Girls and Madeleine for the story (and me in the sidebar commentary). We are so pleased this story is getting some well deserved attention in the media.
Many thanks to our customers who have donated kits so far:
Debora L (TN), Sharon H (PA), Rachel R (BC), Janet B (JP), Anna A (OR), Stephanie S (WV), Elizabeth D (AZ), Susan M (TX), Stephanie F (NB), Heather K (MI), Emily M (NY), Elizbaeth D (MN), Ann B (BC), Melodie R (MB), Catherine Y (IN), Genevieve W (MA), Rachel M (CO), Stephanie A (ON), Stacy S (ON), Tracy T (SK), Jan P W (TX), Christine T (MA), Jessica J (AR), Jessica F (VA), Karen P (AZ), Alayne N (MI), Stephanie R (CA), Sarah H (ON), Lindsey K (OR), Sarah S (MO), Melissa W (MB), Jennie R (ON), Sylvia B (NM), Susan M (NY), Denise L (NY), and Victoria S (BC).
March 29th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
Hi!
I too am so blown away by this idea - I will be placing my order for Goods 4 Girls, and I have passed on the idea to my classmates in my Gender and Women’s Studies class at Dalhousie University in Halifax, NS…. hopefully this will help raise some interest.
Good luck, and thanks so much for this! -Sarah
April 11th, 2008 at 5:44 am
Hi, I recently bought one of the lunapads for girls kits and I am kinda having second thoughts as to if I should have bought one of the lunapanties kits instead. Please excuse my ignorance of the situation but does anyone know if the girls the program is targeting generally have underwear of their own to use the pads with?
Thanks for doing this program- I think it’s great! I’ve seen the ads Always has been running but I think the reusable ones are a much better option because when the Always campaign ends and the donations of disposable pads stop coming, the girls who receive the cloth pads can use them for years still.
April 16th, 2008 at 10:00 am
Dimity - for the most part, the girls receiving the kits already own underwear, but that is not the case for many of the girls in Uganda. So, the Lunapanties kits will go specifically to that group.