7 - What else is being done

The Days For Girls charity isn't just helping girls by distributing kits and delivering training!  They have set up Local Enterprises

Here local women are given the equipment and the resources and the training to make kits - and these kits are then sold.  Not to local ladies but to people like you and me.  We buy the kits and this gives the makers a small income: they then deliver the kits to local schools or hospitals to help local girls and ladies who need the kits

6 - Problems choosing who we should help

A friend of ours, Briege, is a New Zealand midwife: she stopped off with me for a week on route to do a month's volunteering at a maternity hospital in the Kisumu area near Nairobi.  This was organised through the Positive Aid Charity.

I showed Briege the kits and she could immediately see the advantage for new mums too - we didn't have long, but we managed to get about 20 kits together and get her through the training (see 4) before she went.

One of the hardest things for her to do was to distribute the kits: she had 20 kits and saw that many ladies every day - and they all wanted one!

She sent me this heartbreaking message: