Moved by stories of monthly isolation, unhygienic makeshift solutions and stigma, a Victorian woman is making reusable period kits and delivering them to those who need them most. Carolyn Walker ...

On a recent Monday morning, a group of women sit in a Seattle dining room, sewing, drinking coffee and chatting. Even though it’s Monday, some of them are known as the Saturday Sewing Sisters, and ...

While spending more than a year spent working at a Kenyan orphanage, Celeste Mergens learned that the girls at the orphanage were provided nothing in terms of feminine hygiene products. Each month the ...

The question that would change Celeste Mergens’ life came to her at 2:30 a.m. in what she describes as a “gasp moment.” It was 2008, and Mergens had been raising money for an overtaxed orphanage in ...

Click play above to hear a version of this story. Fabrics are piled precariously on every available surface in the Days for Girls International center in Gainesville, little scraps and pieces of ...

It was a sewing bee with a special purpose — Tuesday, members of four womens' sewing groups on P.E.I. gathered to learn how to create reuseable menstrual kits for girls in Kenya. The kits are designed ...

Fashion students in Hobart have helped ensure girls in impoverished countries do not miss a week of school each month due to menstruation, by sewing sanitary kits. As part of their assessment, the ...