For Her Dignity

The “3 Init’s” were on the move again today! (In arabic ‘Inti’ is the female pronoun for “YOU”. It is our version of the 3 musketeers … all for one and one for all!

We are prepping for an action packed week of dignity sessions next week and had an advanced class with some of our facilitators in training.

It is one thing to cut out patterns …. But how to manage a session of 25 ladies tracing and cutting simultaneously … is quite another skill all together.

Feeling good about next week … love the progress of our apprentices.

Now the computer calls … need to finishing up some of the admin work that goes along with all of this fun action.

So great to be with the Kendaka.eg lead textile queen Asmaa and team.

Today we did the A to Z on underwear Patterns and using super cute Upcycled fabrics!

Not a single moment was lost … Asmaa got right down to business and traced our patterns onto her own, cut her first practice pairs … and the rest is herstory.

Thank you Catherine El Taweel-Kost and your entire team at Kendaka … you are such a leader in sustainability fashion!

Can’t hardly wait to see all of the underwear and liners that will be made!

Thank you to بنك الكساء المصري Egyptian Clothing Bank for excess remnants that we used today.

Happy International Women’s Day! .

So honored to be working alongside Journey of Life, بنك الكساء المصري Egyptian Clothing Bank Kendaka.eg Brighter Communities Worldwide The Confidence Queen Africa Oasis Saadia F.Hasson Transformation Textiles For Her Dignity

1 white Upcycled Hoodie = 16 L1’s & 16 L2’s = That would allow someone to have 8 “Fresh & Clean” liners any time she wanted. (L1 is an oval shaped liner; L2 is the larger shaped liner in the photo)

Alongside these hero’s I just mentioned, we are bringing women together to break taboos, smash shame over period poverty and provide EVERY WOMAN the education, inspiration and know how towards sustainable sanitary solutions.

This week the Egypt team doubled down on developing easy ways to replicate our patterns of underwear and liners with simple local sources of clear plastic file folders! Extremely cheap, assessable and durable to trace patterns and then use as templates on discarded fast fashion garments that will be Upcycled into unlimited numbers of washable absorbent liners and underwear.