My Africa Experience: Thursday May 15th's Amazing Adventure

Today was one of the best days of the trip thus far. I may have found my life calling. As many of you know i have been prepping for months to put togther a feminine hygiene presentation for this trip. Well today I got very lucky and was able to make it happen. We were invited to travel with the Hamblin's to the Fourth of October school which sits very close to Mozambique South Africa border. 

currently there are about sixty girls which attend this school who are sponsored through the Hablin's. They provided them with a pair of leggings and a new pair of flip flops. We also left 100 pairs of flip flops to be passed out to other students who may not have shoes. After the girls all got a photo taken to send to their sponsor we were able to put on our presentation. The girls were so engaged and interested in learning, they cheered when they found out we'd be giving them each two cloth pads and a carrying bag and they clapped when they found out that we were the ones who made the pads. 

We discussed things such as the reproductive system, menstruation, and UTI's. We asked the girls what they know and then filled in the blanks. Many of the girls already use pads which was great, but we let them know the reusable ones are cheaper and make no waste, which is something Mozambique could really use. 

Afterward there were many people who stated that they believe it went very well and that these girls really needed the information we provided. They stated they wanted to do another program like this for another group of girls because they do not have programs such as this already. 

We had celebratory sodas at a little market, but they only had Pepsi....gross. I got some crazy fruit soda.

The construction between South Africa and Mozambique is crazy, they have many people who sell drinks and food on the side of the road to people stuck in traffic, these ladies were pretty amazing.

I feel so amazing after this great day, and I feel that we really touched the lives of these girls. I honestly want to find out what I need to do to get funded for research trips to provide more girls with this important information.