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RIPPING AND ROLLING FOR HEALTH AND HOPE – Raelynn Faire, left, and Dorothy Bird roll strips of flannel cotton for Day for Girls menstrual kits. Several more hands and steps will create kits that will be sent to teen girls in over 140 countries. – Photo by Ken Stern
La Conner Soroptimist members took on a new cause Wednesday at their meeting at the Swinomish Yacht Club, putting their hands to work ripping and rolling fabric for Days for Girls, a program supplying menstrual shield kits to girls.
Carol Olsen invited the 65 women attending to join the effort that has helped 1.5 million girls in 146 countries on six continents.
“It’s all because of women like you,” Olsen, co-director of the Anacortes Days for Girls chapter said. “Some who sew, some who do not.”
Volunteers sew cotton flannel liners and shields and make drawstring backpacks for kits that includ...
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