Valentines for Kenyan Women

These are not traditional hearts and cute saying cards, but rather a reusable feminine hygiene kit for girls and women of Kenya. Often in rural areas, females resort to dried leaves, strips of cloth or even dried dung because they have no access or funds to purchase sanitary products.

Stanley and Mary Gitari, who have visited Church of the Servant multiple times in the past 10 years, have recently retired from the hospital, but their ministry to the people of Maua continues. They used Mary’s lump sum retirement money to build a counseling and education center next door to their home in Maua. In this center, Mary conducts a 3-day alternative rite of passage Christian program to teach against FGM (female genital mutilation) which is still practiced. There is also training about the basic facts of life that even many adult women do not know about – monthly cycles, ovulation, a woman’s right to say NO.

This year the Center for Health and Hope is assisting in starting a small business to make reusable sanitary supplies for the young women in the school and their community.

Together we will work towards health and self sufficiency for young women, through both menstrual hygiene supplies and educational hygiene seminars for the students .

Please consider supporting this program by sending a Valentine gift of $25. Mary is starting a small business with local women to make the kits locally rather than ordering them from Nairobi. If you would like to see the kit and some of the training materials, I’d be happy to show them to you. Contact Ann Knutson at annknut@gmail.com

Donate via gift at our website: centerforhealthandhope.org

Ann Knutson, Kenya Mission Team Leader

Or send checks to: 7185 S. Niagara Circle, Centennial, CO 80112