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GladRags in Africa
Lisa Tuttle shared this photo with us of her demonstrating how to use GladRags to schoolgirls in Ghana. The GladRags community donated over 250 pads to the Good Shepherd Orphanage and School for these...
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Keeping Girls in School with Cloth Pads
Hello fellow bloggers of GladRags! I’m a US Peace Corps Public Health Volunteer serving in the Nyanza Province of Kenya. My home is a small village on the Kisii-Kisumu road called Mikai. After two...
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Thank You from Nepal!
Izzy V., who brought 50 donated GladRags with her to Nepal, emailed us about how the girls received their new pads. Want to help other girls and women across the world? Click here to learn about our...
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News from Helen in Kenya!
We first met Helen in her guest post about the Female Hygiene program she’s working on in Kenya as part of her Peace Corps Volunteer position. Below is an update on how the project is going! Hello...
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YOU Can Help Empower Women in Africa!
We’re excited to announce our new partnership with Empower Women in Africa! Together, we hope to bring educational and economic opportunities to girls and women in rural Africa. And you can help: by...
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Empower Kits for One School at a Time
26 young women and girls were completely attentive at a recent class at their rural school in Uganda. The topic was menstruation and the facilitator was Hussein, program manager for One School at a...
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One School at a Time: Empowering Girls in Uganda with Cloth Pads
A huge thank you to everyone who purchased an Empower Kit through GladRags.com — your donations are making a difference! Read on to hear from Patty how cloth menstrual pads can help empower women in...
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International Day of Peace
To receive news and offers like this in your inbox, join our Savings Club International Day of Peace | 10% off with Purchase of an Empower Kit Today is the International Day of Peace, a day set aside...
View ArticleEmpowering Women with Every Transaction
Here at GladRags, we’re always looking for ways to improve the way we do business. Sometimes, the solution is obvious (recycle everything) and sometimes, it’s not so straightforward. When we became a...
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Help Empower Women in Africa win a $10k Grant
Great news from our friends at Empower Women in Africa! They’ve been chosen by Huffington Post as one of the top start-up NGOs in the nation! There are five different categories, each with two...
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Cloth Pads Help Orphans in Nepal!
We’ve written before about Izzy, who brings GladRags cloth pads to the orphanage in Nepal where she volunteers. Seeing a need for reliable menstrual protection, Izzy first contacted us way back 2010 to...
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Donate A Pad: Why I give!
Universal education is one of the millennial development goals set to be achieved in the world by 2015 — we have less than 500 days to go. According to UNICEF, there are 31 million girls of primary...
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What is your Little Thing?
“Education, of course, creates many opportunities. In Kenya, for most people of my generation and after, a high school education or a college degree is a guaranteed ticket out of the perceived drudgery...
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Lessons Learned! Equipped to Lead!
As part of the Mandela Washington fellowship I was posted for an internship at GladRags in Portland to apply skills I learned during the six weeks of learning at UC Berkeley as well as learn how to...
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Menstrual Hygiene Day – Get Involved!
Menstrual Hygiene Day is May 28th May 28th, 2014 marked the first annual Menstrual Hygiene Day. Celebrations were held all over the world, from India to Uganda to Germany to right here in Portland,...
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