THIS GIFT KEEPS GIVING
Bidi Bidi, Uganda is the largest refugee settlement area on the planet—home to over a quarter-million people, and 87% of them are women and children.
The ability to maintain personal hygiene is key for these women as they rebuild their lives, but it is extremely difficult to find soap and sanitary products in the refugee camp. Without these products, women struggle to work, girls don’t go to school and self-esteem is eroded.
Our Basic Needs Kit is helping in more ways than one. Together, we have partnered with a co-op of women in the refugee area to create and distribute these kits. Our kits include basic items such as a toothbrush & toothpaste, soap, reusable menstrual pads and laundry detergent. Through our other programs, these women are trained in tailoring and soap-making—giving them the perfect skills to contribute back to their own community.
Not only will these kits help create economic sustainability, they will connect these working refugee women to other women and children—enabling them to help others while helping themselves.
We love a full-circle moment. Thank you for helping to make it happen.
